Ruby Speaks
by Tyler on Jun.27, 2008, under Programming, Ruby, sapi5, win32
Learned a new trick the other day. I was searching around and I found out how to make Ruby talk. So far this only works for Windows machines because the win32 files are only available in Windows… as far as my knowledge. Copy and paste the following code into any editor. It prompts the user for a file and reads it.
require “win32/sapi5″
include Win32
include Win32
print “Enter Text File:”
file = gets
voice = SpVoice.new
speech = “”
File.open(file.chomp).each {| words| speech +=words } #Automatic Close
voice.Speak(speech)
puts
Or, you could just do this:
require “win32/sapi5″
include Win32
include Win32
voice = SpVoice.new
speech = “Tyler is cool, but Sharece is cooler.”
voice.Speak(speech)
