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[Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com>]

Thanks Jerry.
Arkadiusz, that’s pretty much the syntax. You can then experiment with 
various voices. If you look into SwiftMac source directory, you will find 
there is a SWIFT script that will allow you to list all the voices available 
on your system along with their identifiers.


> On Jul 7, 2025, at 5:18 PM, Jerry Sievers (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> "Arkadiusz" (via emacspeak Mailing List) <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net>
> writes:
> 
>> Ni hao,
>> As I wrote in my introduction E-Mail I am an iOS/MacOS developer and I
>> use Swift to make my remarkably buggy apps. I found that I can install
>> swift-mode from within Emax. I did install it, but legendary
>> Emacspeak's audio syntax highlighting doesn't work. No matter if I am
>> in function, statement, I write correct or incorrect code, everything
>> is spoken in the same kind of voice.
>> Does the developer of Emacspeak need to rewrite every plugin to make it 
>> support this feature or I need to configure something?
>> I am using Emacs for less than a day so please, bear with me.
> 
> Greetings and welcome.
> 
> I recall wondering why SwiftMAc driver was not doing any voice lock
> but then upon browsing the docs somewhere (github maybe) I found the
> below... put it into my init.el file and it works.
> 
>  ;  examples of messing with voices
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-bolden   " [{voice en_US:Fred}] [[pitch 0.8]] 
> "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-animate   " [{voice en-US:Kit}] [[pitch 1]] "  
> )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-animate-extra   " [{voice en-US:Kit}] [[pitch 
> 1.5 ]] "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-lighten   " [{voice en-AU:Matilda}] [[pitch 
> 1]] "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-lighten-extra   " [{voice en-AU:Matilda}] 
> [[pitch 1.1]] "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-smoothen   " [{voice en-UK:Daniel}] [[pitch 
> 1]] "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-monotone   " [{voice en-US:Eddy}] [[pitch 1]] 
> "  )
> (swiftmac-define-voice voice-monotone-extra   " [{voice en-US:Eddy}] 
> [[pitch 1.5]] "  )
> 
> FWIW, speech performance and reliability  is somewhat reduced for
> certain types of content and I am in the habit of temporarily
> disabling voice-=lock at times, but it's generally nice to have it all
> enabled by default.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
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