User Guide

580 Chapter 12: Methods
Example
This statement sets the variable oldVoice to the property list describing the current text-to-
speech voice:
oldVoice = voiceGet()
This statement displays the property list of the current text-to-speech voice:
put voiceGet()
-- [#name: "Mary", #age: "teen", #gender: "female", #index: 5]
See also
voiceInitialize(), voiceCount(), voiceSet(), voiceGet()
voiceGetAll()
Usage
voiceGetAll()
Description
Function; returns a list of the available voices installed on the computer. The list is composed of
property lists, one for each available voice.
Each property list contains the following properties:
• #name indicates the name of the installed voice.
• #age indicates the age of the voice. The value is a string. Possible values include “Teen”,
“Adult”, “Toddler”, and “Senior”, as well as numeric values such as “35”. Actual values depend
on the operating system, speech software version, and voices installed.
• #gender indicates wether the voice is male or female.
• #index indicates the position of the voice in the list of installed voices. You can refer to a voice
by its index when using the
voiceSet() command.
You can also use
voiceCount() to determine the number of available voices.
Parameters
None.
Example
This statement sets the variable currentVoices to the list of voices installed on the user’s
computer:
currentVoices = voiceGetAll()
This statement displays the property list describing each of the currently installed
text-to-speech voices:
put voiceGetAll()
-- [[#name: "Mary", #age: "teen", #gender: "female", #index: 1], [#name: "Joe",
#age: "adult", #gender: "male", #index: 2]]
See also
voiceInitialize(), voiceCount(), voiceSet(), voiceGet()