Say /a/

how can I write a program in matlab to say /a/?

[Jan]

What exactly does "say" mean here? Do you want a voice from the speakers saying "slash a slash"?

[Walter Roberson]

Long "a" or short "a" or Boston "a" or Ottawa Valley "eh" ?

[Farideh Jalali]

Jan:I need too write a program that can hear /a/ from speakers.

Walter:Long /a/

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

On a PC

    textIn = 'ah';
    ha = actxserver('SAPI.SpVoice');
    invoke(ha,'speak',textIn);

[Sean de Wolski]

Sweet!

[Farideh Jalali]

Very helpful,

Thanks Wayne,

Answer 2

[the cyclist]

If you are on a Mac, you can take advantage of the command line "say" command, via the MATLAB system() function:

>> system('say anything')
>> system('say a')

If you are on a PC, you might be able to use one of the solutions mentioned in this old blog post:

http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2008/09/12/making-matlab-talk/

[william]

hi, I was wondering if there is any way of modifying the default voice from MATLAB? system('say "你好"') for reading Chinese, doesn't work out

or by default, can be reader from a variable? something like chinese={"你好"}

system('say , chinese')

Thank you in advance

[the cyclist]

I would ask a new question, rather than burying it as a comment in a two-year-old question that almost no one will see.