[PD] sending macosx terminal commands from with pure data

[Dan Wilcox]

Yes, the say command + [shell]. Something like:

[ say "I am Sophy, hear me roar" <
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[shell]

enohp ym morf tnes
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Dan Wilcox
danomatika.com
robotcowboy.com

On Mar 14, 2012, at 10:07 AM, William Brent <william.brent at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ahoy Sofy,
> 
> For terminal commands, try the [shell] object in Pd-ext.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:56 AM, sonia yuditskaya <marysghost at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ahoy and Greetings,
>> 
>> I would like to do some text to speech in a pd patch.
>> I am running on Macosx so it seems that there is no version of the ratts
>> external that will run on my system.
>> However macosx itself has very excellent text to speech built in, the only
>> twist is how to send the terminal commands from within pd.
>> 
>> Of course actually doing text to speech from within the patch would be
>> prime.
>> 
>> Does anyone have experience with either of those scenarios?
>> 
>> Sofy Yuditskaya
>> s~
>> 
>> 
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