Shoutbox

Hi,

I'm somewhere in my room, I hear the famous messenger sound when somebody comes online, but who?

Maybe it is an idea to build a plug-in that uses some speech-engine (Microsoft's Win XP build in engine??) to TELL me who is coming online...!

Like this: "Barisko had come online".

and maybe as an extra: "Barisko is talking to you", when somebody sends a message.

[Note: in these examples ‘Barisko’ is the custom name set in Plus! Using the custom name to be sure the speech-engine can pronounce it and you know who comes online (this is not the case if you use the messenger screen name and somebody changes it al the time...)]



What do you people think?



Have a nice day,
Barisko

MsnSpeech did that, but I don't know if it still exists...

Try Using Text to Speech ActiveX Controls

i woke up this morning with this same idea, why didn't anyone make this plugin? it can't be that hard i guess......

Yeah, that sounds like an awesome idea. I'd make it if I could, but I can't.

I've been using this feature for a while now. What I did is that I picked out a few contacts that I actually want to notice when they come online. Then I use Microsoft Window's "Sound Recorder" along with "control panel->Speech" and record MS Sam's voice by typing a contact's name to pronunce. I do this with all the 'special' contacts. Then, just go to Plus' preference and add the sign-in sound you recorded for each contact.

It would be nice if it is automatic though.......

it would to bad my skills are limited to outputting texts in C++

or you can record your own voice and add it in, maybe only doing this for your more important contact