{"id":131,"date":"2004-06-23T08:31:45","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=131"},"modified":"2004-06-23T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T13:31:45","slug":"talking-matlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2004\/06\/23\/talking-matlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking MATLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"Fahad Al Mahmood's <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=4769&amp;objectType=file (link no longer works)\">Speak<\/a> takes advantage of Microsoft Office's spoken word engine to make MATLAB talk.  This brings me back to grad school days, using MATLAB 5 on a PowerComputing Mac clone.  Speak was a function specifically on MATLAB on the Mac that did the same thing.  There was nothing better than hearing this at the end of a long day:\n\nspeak('Scott - another one of your brilliant simulations is finished.  You may now graduate!')\n\nSeriously, though, little submissions like this are great for adding that personal touch to applications.  Thanks, Fahad!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fahad Al Mahmood's Speak takes advantage of Microsoft Office's spoken word engine to make MATLAB talk.  This brings me back to grad school days, using MATLAB 5 on a PowerComputing Mac clone.  Speak... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2004\/06\/23\/talking-matlab\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}