A properly working speaker.

Although I like the speaker we have now, it would be 100 times better if we could use google translate like the other mod, its oviously doable to a certain degree, so I think we should try to do something like:

speakers.speak(<language>, <pitch>, <speed(1-5>, <text>)

RR_DEADPOOL, on 09 April 2018 - 06:37 AM said:

Although I like the speaker we have now, it would be 100 times better if we could use google translate like the other mod, its oviously doable to a certain degree, so I think we should try to do something like:

speakers.speak(<language>, <pitch>, <speed(1-5>, <text>)

Nah, I think it's fine the way it is. It would add unnecessary complexity and go against the mod's retro theme.

apemanzilla, on 11 April 2018 - 11:55 PM said:

RR_DEADPOOL, on 09 April 2018 - 06:37 AM said:

Although I like the speaker we have now, it would be 100 times better if we could use google translate like the other mod, its oviously doable to a certain degree, so I think we should try to do something like:

speakers.speak(<language>, <pitch>, <speed(1-5>, <text>)

Nah, I think it's fine the way it is. It would add unnecessary complexity and go against the mod's retro theme.

It is not complex, it has been done before; quite easily may I add.

I think he's talking about the complexity it would add to the mod, not the complexity needed to implement this into the mod.
And I fully agree with him.

But implementing it also comes with a lot of challenges. I only know of one addon for CC which added a speaker that could use TTS and it had massive problems saying english text on non-english systems because it used the built-in TTS system of the OS.
Using google translate is probably not an option because I don't think google offers TTS using their API, it would require a constant connection to the internet and if google offers TTS via google translate it probably would cost money, as their translation API does right now.

Even the speaker we have has a lot of potential and uses, but I never seen anybody doing something with it. In my opinion we have to take a look at the speaker we have now before we take it to the next level.

The speaker has primitive sounds. I want to build a pure-lua music engine, but I do not know if it would be possible, and I got a million other projects. Also, I don't particularly like the work of getting a speaker out of my inventory.

Maybe just a simple beeper speaker?

Dan did implement one into Redirection (which has a "Robot Arcade" based on ComputerCraft, with user scripts such as this music tracker distributed through the Steam Workshop). The plan was to put one into CC2.0, as well.