Re - text-to-speech on WindowsXP

Stephen King st.king42 at ntlworld.com
Sat Aug 2 05:37:00 EDT 2003


Hi Barry,

I had the same problem with Rev 2.0 and Mailed Rev about it and got the
following reply from Tuviah.

---> snip
>Does anyone know if Text to speech works in windows? I have tried Win XP
and
>Win 98 (using a button for both) and each time I get the error message
'Can't
>initialise speech engine'
Works with SAPI 4. We will support SAPI 5 soon
--->

So I guess its being looked at. I couldn't find any ref in the bug database
though which was a bit puzzling. Anyone know any more?

Have not been able to try 2.0.2 yet as I haven't worked out how to get Rev
to accept my new license code yet! But have been a bit busy though.

Cheers
Steve


>I started a thread some time ago about text-to-speech options on
>Windows. No problem on the Mac (of course). I was just looking through
>my XP installation and found a Speech Control Panel in which there is a
>"voice" named "Microsoft Sam". When I selected it, it "speaks" (and
>highlights, word-by-word) a sentence in that Control Panel.

>Is there no way to attach to this in Rev? When I try the text-to-speech
>sample stack included with the Rev 2.0.1 folder (for Windows), it sees
>no voices available.

>Any help is appreciated.





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