#Copyright (c) 2009-10, Walter Bender, Tony Forster #Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy #of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal #in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights #to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell #copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is #furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: #The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in #all copies or substantial portions of the Software. #THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR #IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, #FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE #AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER #LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, #OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN #THE SOFTWARE. # # This procedure is invoked when the user-definable block on the "extras" # palette is selected. def myblock(lc, arg): ########################################################################### # # Text to speech # ########################################################################### import os pitch = None if type(arg) == type([]): text = arg[0] if len(arg) > 1: pitch = int(arg[1]) if pitch > 99: pitch = 99 elif pitch < 0: pitch = 0 else: text = arg # Turtle Art numbers are passed as float, # but they may be integer values. if type(text) == float and int(text) == text: text = int(text) if pitch is None: os.system('espeak "%s" --stdout | aplay' % (text)) else: os.system('espeak "%s" -p "%s" --stdout | aplay' % (text, pitch))