Summary of the speech component

t:speech-events summarizes the speech generation statements provided by the speech component.

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Table: AFL statements for generating speech events.

The intonational markers we use correspond to the description in [Pie81]. Note however, that MultiVoice does not provide all of the intonational markers described therein -see Chapter 5 of the MultiVoice reference manual [Tec91] for a detailed discussion on intonational markers on MultiVoice.

To conclude this section, here is a summary of the rest of the statements provided by the speech component. Many of these statements will be extended to work in other component spaces in the next section.

• Variable: *current-speech-state*
  Contains the current speech state.
• Variable: *global-speech-state*
  Contains the global speech state.
• Statement: (local-set-state point)
  Assign value of point to *current-speech-state*.
• Statement: (global-set-state point)
  Assign the value of point to *global-speech-state*.
• Operator: (op pt dim val)
  Return the state reached by moving along dim by val from pt.
  The type of move is specified by op where

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• Statement: (set-final-scale-factor dim factor)
  assign factor as the final scale factor for dim.
• Statement: (initialize-speech-space)
  Initialize current and global speech state.