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TracksBoard.ItemSpeechFromFileAdd method

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Remarks

 

Adds a speech item, obtained from a text file, to the audio stream previously created through the TracksBoard.Create method. The text file can be eventually modified at a later time through the TracksBoard.ItemSpeechFileSet method.

 

In case you should need to add a text to speech stream from a simple string of text you may use the TracksBoard.ItemSpeechFromStringAdd method.

 

The text file may eventually contain XML markups: see the MSDN documentation for a tutorial about XML markup syntax.

 

 

Important note about items overlapping

 

Overlapping of two items on the same track is now allowed so, in case the new item should cause an overlapping and upon space availability, the new item will be automatically moved to the next track or to the previous track; if both previous and next tracks should in any case suffer an overlapping, a new track will be automatically inserted on the nearest position.

 

 

For details about the use of the TracksBoard refer to the How to use the TracksBoard to visually compose songs tutorial.

For further details about methods of the TracksBoard refer to the TracksBoard object section.

 

 

Syntax

 

[Visual Basic]

control.TracksBoard.ItemSpeechFromFileAdd (

strFriendlyName as String,

nTrack as Integer,

strPathname as String,

nVoice as Long,

bRemoveFinalSilence as enumBoolean,

nOffsetMs as Long,

ByRef nUniqueId as Long

) as enumErrorCodes


 

[C++]

short control.TracksBoard.ItemSpeechFromFileAdd (

LPCTSTR strFriendlyName,

short nTrack,

LPCTSTR strPathname,

long nVoice,

short bRemoveFinalSilence,

long nOffsetMs,

long *nUniqueId

);


 

Parameter

Description

 

 

strFriendlyName

Friendly name of the item

nTrack

Zero-based index of the track where the item will be placed. The current number of tracks can be obtained through the TracksBoard.TracksCountGet method.

strPathname

Absolute pathname of the text file

nVoice

Zero-based index of the speaking voice. The total number of voices installed inside the system can be obtained through the SoundGenerator.SpeechVoicesNumGet method and related attributes can be obtained through the SoundGenerator.SpeechVoiceAttributeGet method.

bRemoveFinalSilence

Boolean flag that specifies to remove the final silence usually introduced by the Speech API.

Supported values are the following:

Mnemonic Value

Meaning

BOOL_FALSE

Don't remove final silence

BOOL_TRUE

Remove final silence

nOffsetMs

Offset of the voice, expressed in milliseconds, respect to the beginning of the audio stream.

nUniqueId

Reference to a value that, on return from the method call, will contain the unique identifier of the newly added item: this unique identifier will be used in order to invoke further methods related to the use of this specific item.

 

 

 

Return value

 

Value

Meaning

 

 

Negative value

An error occurred, check the LastError property value in order to get the error code

enumErrorCodes.ERR_NOERROR (0)

The method call was successful