Programming a Talking Lion
Writing good speech synthesis and recognition software is hard. That’s why we’re going to take advantage of all the hard work Apple speech software engineers have poured into OS X. The engine can be accessed a variety of ways, via the preferred method of Objective-C to Perl, Python, Ruby, and other scripting language hooks. But the easiest way I have found to tinker and quickly modify and test on the fly is via AppleScript.
I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a big fan of AppleScript. Its attempt to turn script writing into a natural English sentence structure works only on a superficial level. It breaks down pretty quickly for any intermediate developer fluent in more elegant scripting languages like Ruby or ...
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