Where can I find a Text-to-Speech component for delphi?

Question

I want to add text to speech user guided instruction to my applications. Where can I find a Text to speech component to do that. I do not want to use the Windows functions.

Answer 1

If you just want a Delphi component that 'wraps' the Windows speech API, you could try this:

http://www.o2a.com/dtalk.htm

However, if you want a complete speech synthesizer which is totally independent of the Windows system, that's a different problem.

Answer 2

Chant SpeechKit has everithing you need http://www.chant.net/Products/SpeechKit/Default.aspx

Answer 3

A few suggestions after a wander thru the web:

• MBROLA Inside...
• AkaSig - Free Text-to-speech technologies
• TextAloud

Answer 4

I read the Brian Long articles

http://www.blong.com/Conferences/DCon2002/Speech/Speech.htm http://www.blong.com/Conferences/DCon2002/Speech/SAPI51/SAPI51.htm

And wrote my own. I use this all day long to read newsgroups, emails and articles.