Speech Synthesis on Windows

[Barry Levine]

Chipp,

Thanks for your input. I had already figured I would need to record my 
own speech as AIFF for the best cross-platform compatibility. I'll save 
the speech synthesis for another, Mac-only, project.

Regards,
Barry

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 01:01 America/Denver, Chipp wrote:

> From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: Speech synthesis on Windows
> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:24:11 -0500
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> I'm pretty sure there isn't a ubiquitous solution for Speech on 
> Windowsv via
> RunRev. I checked around last night and found out they're shipping the 
> SAPI
> 5.1 now with new WinXP, and RunRev Speech doesn't work with SAPI 5.1. 
> In
> fact, it's a bit confusing even trying to find out what version of 
> SAPI is
> running on WinXP.
>
> I think RR will need to update the Speech libraries for Windows users.
>
> --Chipp
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Barry 
>> Levine
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 7:02 PM
>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Speech synthesis on Windows
>>
>>
>> I've used Macintalk within Rev to make my Mac speak phrases I have in
>> fields (not user entered but static). How can I do this on a Windows 
>> PC
>> without requiring some special hardware? Is there any "standard 
>> minimum
>> configuration" that might be valid to spec?
>>
>> If I have to include real AIFF files on both platforms to make the
>> features common I will do so. I was just wondering...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Barry
>>
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