I have a web application that uses SAPI to do TTS. I run it on Windows Server 2003 that has MS Sam installed by default. I understand that there are a number of 3rd party companies that sell voices. For a commercial application, which of these companies offer licenses that don't charge a lot of money? Do they have API to easily integrat...
I have developed a project which I would like to release which uses c#, WPF and the System.Speech.Synthesizer object. The issue preventing the release of this project is that whenever SpeakAsync is called it leaves a memory leak that grows to the point of eventual failure. I believe I have cleaned up properly after using this object, b...
I am trying to build an application (which would use the Hindi language and other regional languages) to get speech voice commands. I also need text to speech functionality in my application. I was wondering if there was any way I could get a speech recognition library on Android? I did a quick Google search and found a couple of libra...
I am making a web page that displays fragments of text from news sites (CNN, BBC, etc.) but I also want it to be read to people who can't see. How can I program the HTML page to read the text for them? Any ideas? Thanks, Boda Cydo. ...
I have a number of small REAL Studio apps that use the Speak keyword on Windows and Mac to output single words or short phrases. Can anyone recommend a way of emulating this on Linux versions of the app, either with a shell command or a Soft declare? These apps are for family use only so I can install free software on Ubuntu if necessa...
is it possible to create portable applications from Scansoft voices .exe files ? (www.portableapps.com). and then be able to access the voices programmatically through System.Speech namespace in .NET 3.5 ? I want to do that so I don't have to take a dedicated server just to install my text-to-speech web app. Help ! ...
I am trying to run a program using freetts. I am able to compile the program however I am not able to use kevin or mbrola voices I get the follwing o/p msgs at the end System property "mbrola.base" is undefined. Will not use MBROLA voices. LINE UNAVAILABLE: Format is pcm_signed 16000.0 Hz 16 bits 1 channel big endian impor...
Do you know of any (simple) examples on the namespace System.Speech.Synthesis.TtsEngine? I'd like to use a TTS engine that allows me to control the pitch, the rate and the volume of the output voice. It looks like the namespace mentioned above allows me to do that, but I couldn't find a single example. I've not fully understood if, in o...
I'd like to use Festival in an iPhone app. Is this possible, considering the way Festival generates and then plays back audio files? Can I pass Festival an audio file directly from itself to play back? or is there a different way to read things? Is there another Text-to-speech engine for C/C++ to use with iphone? EDIT: Free is better....
I am attempting to create a wrapper class for Google Android's Text-To-Speech functionality. However, I'm having trouble finding a way to have the system pause until after the onInit function has finished. Attached at the bottom is something of a solution I created based on what I found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1160876/...
Hi, I've got Windows Mobile 6.5 application and I need to add simple voice control (like "yes" and "no" commands recognition). I'd also like to add possibility of reading text displayed on LCD. I'd appreciate any suggestions about possible solutions for such problem. Are there any free libraries with described functionalities? Thanks ...
Hi, I'm trying to get my Android app to play a .wav file recording of the word "Spinach Salad" whenever it sees that phrase being spoken by TTS. Here's the relevant code: spinach_salad.wav is located in /res/raw prodName = "Spinach Salad" mTts.addSpeech(prodName, "com.example.textextractor", R.raw.spinach_salad); ...and later in the...
Question: I am trying to use the espeak text-to-speech engine. So for I got it working wounderfully on linux (code below). Now I wanted to port this basic program to windows, too, but it's nearly impossible... Part of the problem is that the windows dll only allows for AUDIO_OUTPUT_SYNCHRONOUS, which means it requires a callback, but I ...
Question: I start the MS Text-to-speech engine in a thread, in order to avoid a crash on DLL_attach. It starts fine, and the text to speech engine gets initialized, but I can't access ISpVoice outside the thread. How can I access ISpVoice outside the thread ? It's a global variable after all... You find XPThreads here: http://www.codepr...
I've been working with Android's TTS functions with general success however, one piece of it refuses to work for me; I can not successfully assign an OnUtteranceCompletedListener to my TextToSpeech object. I've tried implementing OnUtteranceCompletedListener in one of my classes and I've tried creating a new, stand-alone OnUtteranceComp...
Hi all, I'm currently looking at developing a small client that has the ability to read text to speech in a variety of languages. Mainly targeting English & Japanese. So my question is, does anyone know of a library that is capable of reading English and Japanese to speech? My target development language initially, is c# Thanks for...
Hi all, I have been trying to figure out how to "speak" a text into a memory buffer using Windows SAPI 5.1 but so far no success, even though it seems it should be quite simple. There is an example of streaming the synthesized speech into a .wav file, but no examples of how to stream it to a memory buffer. In the end I need to have t...
Ok, so I've downloaded some TTS engines to replace the default microsoft TTS engine, and make my program sound a little more 'human' -- basically i am wondering where abouts the TTS engine files are stored on the local pc (windows 7) -- the files i have are in .Dat format, does anyone have any idea where abouts the should go to be regis...
When it comes to TTS (text-to-speech) libraries in Linux, what choices do developers have? What libraries ship with the majority of distros? Are there minimal libraries? What functionality does each library offer? I'm approaching this primarily from a C++ point of view, although Python would suit me too. ...
Hi Forum, I am newbie in Blackberry development, can anyone please suggest me the correct steps to implement JSAPI Text-to-Speech feature in my Blackberry application. If it would be possible can any one please provide a sample code snippet for the same. Thanks in advance. Thanks, Varun ...