I promised to get back to you if/when I figured out how to pipe OS X SC Speech into scsynth. Here's the step by step as I *think* I understand it with a bit of code to try. And break. It's all pretty new and rudimentary so comments and suggestions will be a big help; questions? I'll try to answer but I'm no genius with this stuff at the moment.
1. Start JackPilot and the Jack server
2. Change System Preferences >> Sound such that JackRouter is the Input and Output setting.
3. Issue the following server options commands (assuming local is default):
Server.default.options.inDevice_("JackRouter");
Server.default.options.outDevice_("JackRouter"); // this should mean the output will come through onboard speakers
(Note: I use a Saffire DAC for monitoring -- headphones and speakers -- consequently my outDevice setting is
Server.default.options.outDevice_("Saffire");
I'm assuming if SC can see your DAC as one of the sound devices, you might do the same thing. But...)
4. (Re-)Boot the server and double check the routing set-up.
5. Open Routing in JackPilot.
You should see, in addition to system input and output (and MIDI stuff unless you've turned it off), an scsynth and a SuperCollider entry. If the SuperCollider entry is not there, run the speech code (below) and it should appear. (This is pretty cludgy, but I don't know how to make it more elegant. Suggestions?)
6. In Routing, connect SuperCollider (Send Ports) to scsynth (Receive Ports); connect scsynth (Send Ports) to system (Receive Ports) AND
*disconnect* system (Send ports) from scsynth (Receive Ports) unless you like your FXs accompanied by random screams of feedback.
Now run this or something more sophisticated:
(
x = SynthDef(\LoopBack, {
var src ;
// read input
src = Normalizer.ar(SoundIn.ar([0,1]), 0.95, 0.01) ;
Out.ar([0,1], FreeVerb.ar(src, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5));
}).play;
)
then, this (which will benefit from more work and better style):
(
var spk2me;
spk2me = Routine { var wrdsArray, wrd;
// Some Samuel Beckett, "Something There"
wrdsArray = [
"something there",
"where",
"out there",
"out where",
"outside",
"what",
"the head what else",
"something there", "somewhere outside",
"the head"
];
Speech.init(2);
wrdsArray.size.do({ arg a;
wrdsArray[a].postln;
wrd = wrdsArray[a];
while({Speech.channels[0].isActive}, {0.5.wait});
Speech.channels[0].speak(wrd);
1.0.wait;
});
// Wait a second before saying it's done
1.0.wait;
"done".postln;
}.play;
)
Thanks for the help so far.
...edN
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