Smallworld has found its voice

Bhimesh over at MagikFun provided an example of how to get Smallworld to talk.

Here's my attempt at getting Magik to talk in multiple languages...

_block 
  v << ole_client.create_object("sapi.spvoice")
  v.speak("ggooten abendd.  vilkommen")
  v.speak("good evening. welcome")
  v.release_object()
_endblock 
$

The German spelling is atrocious, but I found that you sometimes have to butcher the spelling to get the voice software to do a better pronunciation.

Imagine the possibilities now that Smallworld has found its voice!

Magikfun

I wanted to announce a new Smallworld-related blog at http://magikfun.blogspot.com. Welcome, Bhimesh, to the relatively new space of blogging about Magik. One of his first posts is about creating a 3D pie graph in Excel using Magik (http://magikfun.blogspot.com/2009/11/3d-pie-diagram-in-excel-from-magik.html). Looks really cool and the code is not that complex.