say - speak messages aloud

This plugin uses a text-to-speech program to speak out any messages appearing in environment/messages. The TTS utility can be run on the Igor machine or on a machine that is accessible via ssh (without a password).

requirements

The plugin uses a command line utility say, as available on OSX. If say is not available it will try (in order) espeak, flite and festival, which are available on most Linux distributions.

schema

• plugindata/say/voice: string, the voice to use (default is to use the default voice). Not supported on Linux.
• plugindata/say/remoteHost: string, host on which to run the script (using ssh), default is the host Igor runs on. Only supported for OSX remote hosts.

actions

When any element inside environment/messages is modified (usually these are message elements) the contents are spoken.