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[Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com>]

You may be able to do that, but I am not sure if this was coded for. Have a look at the SwiftMac source directory?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM Arkadiusz <nuno69a AT gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Victor,
The one thing I don't understand is whether I can adjust other parameters or onlyh pitch. I have an idea for a system where all pitch, volume and rate play a role.

> On 8 Jul 2025, at 7:42 AM, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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