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Text-To-Speech
« Thread started on: Nov 2nd, 2015, 09:51am » |
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Richard, I ran across your program "_speech.bas" while researching the task of getting Windows to speak a few phrases.
It works well on my Win7 setup, but I'm curious how well you think this method will stand up as time marches on. Perhaps there's a much better way that you are familiar with?
I was actually creating a hardware solution when I started with the "due diligence" Windows search. Anyone else know of a solution?
EDIT: I did find this link: http://basic.wikispaces.com/Calling+methods+in+COM+objects
EDIT2: Also this one: http://basic.wikispaces.com/SpeechLibrary
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Richard Russell
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Re: Text-To-Speech
« Reply #1 on: Nov 2nd, 2015, 10:59am » |
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on Nov 2nd, 2015, 09:51am, pnlawrence wrote:| It works well on my Win7 setup, but I'm curious how well you think this method will stand up as time marches on. |
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Assuming the program you are referring to is this one it uses the native SAPI5 API, which comes as standard with Windows and, as far as I can see from that MSDN reference, is still the preferred way of accessing the text-to-speech engine in Windows 10 (when not using managed code).
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What is the source of your concern? All the other ways of achieving speech synthesis in Liberty BASIC (that I am aware of) rely on third-party DLLs, which I would expect to be more vulnerable to potential compatibility and reliability issues than the native API supported by Microsoft.
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Re: Text-To-Speech
« Reply #2 on: Nov 2nd, 2015, 11:07am » |
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Concern? Windows 10 was my concern, but you slayed that dragon for me! Thanks!
This will be perfect in my project, since I only have a few short phrases to speak ... over and over ... the same each time. This will save me a hardware project, too.
As it turns out, there is only one voice available for Win7 and typical of MS you get what they provide and that's it.
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Re: Text-To-Speech
« Reply #3 on: Nov 2nd, 2015, 2:35pm » |
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on Nov 2nd, 2015, 11:07am, pnlawrence wrote:| As it turns out, there is only one voice available for Win7 and typical of MS you get what they provide and that's it. |
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Microsoft Anna I think, but you can of course download others (not necessarily free though). There are some nice SAPI5 voices available (at a cost) from http://www.textaloud.com/ . As a test I purchased Ivona Brian (a British English voice) and selected it in the LB program thus:
Code: data "<voice required='name=IVONA 2 Brian OEM'>This is a demonstration of speech synthesis</voice>"
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