talk

The talk instruction speaks one or more phrases.

Synopsis

talk(type.src [,type.style])

Description

The talk instruction uses the type.src argument to specify the phrase to be spoken. The second optional argument is the coding style of the speech to play back.

• Do not use character data types for arguments in either format.

When talk (as well as tchars and tnum) instructions are executed, the system queues phrases in a buffer, but the phrases are not immediately played. Phrases are played under one of the following three conditions:

• The script executes a speech-flushing instruction.
• The script executes a say instruction (Text-to-Speech).
• The number of queued talk or say requests exceeds the TSM limit in the /vs/data/irAPI.rc file. If there is not limit, the default of 256 is used.

Example

In the following example, the GREET subroutine is called on to say two introductory phrases from the talkfile specified in the setalk instruction. It then calls on a subroutine to speak the final phrase contained.

MAIN:
setalk(30)
GREET( )
........... ............... ............
BYE( )

GREET:
talk(10)
talk(11)
indirect_talk(50)
............ .............. ........
rts( )
indirect_talk:
talk(r.3)
rts( )

See also

• ftalk
• setalk
• tchars
• tnum

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