MudReader for ZMUD

by Trace

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Trace2010-05-14 06:41:54
I heard about this free plugin for ZMUD that reads text out loud for you, so I went to Zuggsoft's site and got it. I installed it today and played with it for awhile. It has 17 voices you can have it play in, and you can change the pitch it reads at as well as the speed and how it pronounces words. It came with a script as an example for making a toggle button in the help files, #BUTTON 0 {Mute} {#speech_disable} {Un-mute} {#speech_enable}, as well as a trigger to have it read your incoming tells, #TRIGGER {%w tells you} {#speak %trigger}. The problem I am having with the tell trigger though is where the lines break, the reading stops. I am pretty sure what I need to do is mess with the word wrap settings somehow to make ZMUD put more characters in a line. Can anyone tell me exactly how to do this? That'd be awesome. Anyway, I am still playing with it and having a little fun and still thinking of different ways I can put it to use in my system. If anyone has any experience with the reader I would be interested in hearing what you might have to say about it. I have already been adding #speak in where I implement #echos that serve as reminders to do something important or that alert me to crucial issues and think this will be handy, especially in incidents where there is heavy scroll, or just when I happen to get distracted from my monitor. It has alot of potential I think, I already used scripts to play sound files off my computer but this is a way to get exactly what you want without having to record your own sounds, so it can be done much faster.
Ilyarin2010-05-14 07:29:27
CONFIG WRAPWIDTH 0, I believe. You need to make it so that Lusternia does not automatically insert linebreaks in the text it sends you.
Trace2010-05-14 18:22:31
Thanks, that did it.