Speech with Windows XP
curry
curry at kagi.com
Fri Oct 11 21:33:01 EDT 2002
A thousand pardons for two posts on the same topic, but with all the
sensational Rev vs. Real stuff sizzling on the list, maybe some of
the plainer topics don't stand out.
I have several projects that need speech, and on Mac that's no
problem. On Windows, it was no problem either until XP came along,
and from Microsoft's website it looks like the Speech SAPI that the
Windows speech external uses only works up to Win2000. If that's
correct, then I'm wondering about a fairly easy way to use speech on
Windows XP.
I assume there are surely some Revolution users who use
text-to-speech in cross-platform projects? I would really appreciate
your tips if anyone knows a good way.
Whether it is a DLL or some type of helper app (that can be
distributed) or interapplication communication, doesn't matter that
much to me as long as it's not too clunky. Or a programming language
that has speech features and could be used to make an executable
helper app.
I'm also going to contact Tuviah about this and see if he has any
suggestions, if so, I'll let you know, but please let me know too if
you have any solutions.
I would also be willing to pay for a third-party solution, if it were
designed to market to more than one person; I'm not currently
situated to hire a custom solution alone and pay more for making Rev
talk on XP than for Revolution itself! TTS complements a wide variety
of applications. I think it's really worth having cross-platform.
Curry
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