I have successfully managed to get System.Speech.Synthesis to read English text in arbitrary voices Anna and Sam. My next task is to localize my application to correctly read Spanish text to our Spanish-speaking clientele. However, I don't think I am asking the right questions, b/c I cannot find in documentation, forum, group or techno...
I'm planning on writing a program for Linux that uses text to speech and speech recognition. What are the best tools/libraries for this? Should I use Windows instead to be able to use better tools? The tools need to be easily callable from a console or C program. ...
Hello all, I have a working speech solution that I'd been playing with over the years, part of which includes integration with FreeTTS. I'm using a client server model and trying to figure out how to adjust the volume on the generated speech that I write to the output stream. There appears to be two approaches in FreeTTS. There's the st...
hey y'all, so I've got the user selecting from a list of "valid voices" for their speech synthesis. I'm pulling the list using GetInstalledVoices() and that results in around 5 or 6 voices including Microsoft Mike. However, should I select any voice besides Microsoft Anna I get an ArgumentExpection saying "Cannot set voice. No matching v...
How do I increase the volume of an outgoing wav audio stream using Java? I'm having issues with various Java TTS engines and the output volume of the synthesized speech. Is there an API call or a doo-hickey.jar I can use to pump up the volume? ...
I want to parse a PDF file from my C# app and create an audio file off it. How would I do that ? I'm particularly looking for a good pdf to text library or a way to strip a pdf file off its text. ...
I would like to do some japanese text to speech on my dedicated windows 2003 x64 server with .net framework, using c# I found something on google, but requires to install a lot of files on the server... i don't like, for stability issues: there is another option, like a linked dll or something? ...
Hi, I think what I am about to want might be easy for you,so I decided to ask it to you, Fist I need to turn a text into speech and then save it as wav file. Could you help me ? Thanks. ...
I am writting a spelling word application for my son and would like recomendations for good APIs that can be understood when it speaks. I am programming in .Net so something that will interop with that would be handy. Thanks in advance. ...
Are there any free text-to-speech libraries available for Windows Mobile? Preferably with a C# (.net CF) API. Edit: It basically needs to be able to read from 0.001 to 999 and a few words like “kilometers, minutes, behind, ahead” Sample phrases: “1 minute 30 seconds behind” “3.45 kilometers left” I have no need for more advanced s...
Are there any screen readers out now that support CSS3 text-to-speech attributes like richness, pause or pitch? If there's competition, which one is more popular? Are there varying levels of standards compliance? ...
On my personal website, i would like to make it "pronounce" something I solved the "concept" problem, as in here, and on my desktop it works smoothly when launched from visual web developer. Creates a file, and then an embedded player in the page will play it. Perfect. So, I uploaded it on the server... I get this error 500: Server...
Is there a way to use the MS Speech utility from command line? I can do it on a mac, but can't find any reference to it on Windows XP. Thanks. ...
Hi all, I was wondering if iPhone has any API that supports Text to Speech feature? I looked around but couldn't find any, so just want to confirm. Thanking in anticipation. ...
How can you read data, i.e. convert simple text strings to voice (speech) in Android? Is there an API where I can do something like this: TextToVoice speaker = new TextToVoice(); speaker.Speak("Hello World"); ...
Hi, There are some built-in sound in TTS(Text-to-speech) like sam at XP and ana for vista, is there any way to add own sound in it. ...
I'm an IT student. I want to write an web browser for blind people. How can I use C# or java to write an application to pronounce some text from a XML file (Text to Speech)? ...
The mac command say can specify the voice used with the -v flag. say -v Alex "compile completed, put your swords down." The available voices can be seen in System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech. How can I get this list programmatically? ...
Hi, I have a short and simple question: Can I use NSSpeechSynthesizer or Mac OS's Text-to-Speech engine from JavaScript (if I'm on a Mac using Safari)? And if so: how? Thanks! Johannes ...
Is there any software out there capable of taking audio files and outputting phonological (IPA) text? I understand much of the software out there takes it straight to a language, but is there one that is 'teachable'? ...