text-to-speech API? SAPI?

[Bob Sneidar]

Odd. It didn't work for me.

Bob


On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Minutes ago just had a bit of a minor programming epiphany.
> 
> A teacher on an EFL (English as a Foreing Language) mailing list pointed me to:
> 
> http://neospeech.com/
> 
> It's a text-to-speech service, and I was amazed how well intelligible
> and ear pleasing it was. The state of the art has certainly improved
> from what I remember way back when!
> 
> So, seeing profound new possiblities for my language classroom,  I
> immediately popped open Rev to see if it had text-to-speech functions
> and, lo and behold!, there was the revSpeak command.
> 
> Gave it a whirl with...
> 
> revSpeak "hello world'"
> 
> ... and two reactions.
> 
> First, wow that was simple. Rev is brilliant!
> 
> Second was, what the hey!! For my target users -- young EFL learners
> -- not only is "Microsoft Sam" unintelligible but he'd either give
> them the giggles or scare them into tears.
> 
> Looking at the Rev documentation, I guess the problem is the API. But
> this is all very new to me, so I don't really know.
> 
> If the holy grail of voice-quality I'm after here is the API (or is it
> SAPI?), would anyone have a recommendation or experience with great
> Windows text-to-speech APIs/SAPIs?
> 
> I'd of course also welcome general advise about text-to-speech
> APIs/SAPiS, especially how to integrate one with my standalones.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --
> Nicolas Cueto
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