tts

TTS Builder description
TTS Builder - Create your own Text To Speech Voice using TTS Builder TTSBuilder enables engineers to create their own Text To Speech Voice or Language using High Quality Open Festival Speech Synthesis Research.

A complete step-by-step manual for such a creation is included in the retail version.

The evaluation version has one such British Voice created using the mentioned step-by-step techniques. The TTSBuilder converts the heavy technical research oriented documentation into one simple practical guide, all you require to do is follow the steps. Not to mention all required libraries for Windows are included.

This is an Research Lab attempt to bring speech synthesis to basic developers. Retail Version Includes:
Step - By - Step Manual for Text To Speech Voice Creation,Required Windows Libraries for deployment of the TTS Engine.

Festival Speech Synthesis Research allows one to create production level Text To Speech Engines. Contact tim@research-lab.com for details


Requirements: Sound Card

Whats New in This Release:

Added more Voices

Vocalise TTS is the new character animation extension for Macromedia Flash mx 2004 that uses text to speech to create amazing talking characters.

Whether it be for Animations, Games, Advertising, Information Systems or any where else that you need to create a lip synched talking character.

Vocalise TTS is the first choice to bring your flash projects to life. Based on original Disney animation techniques and using the latest text to speech technology.

Vocalise TTS is an essential addition to any flash MX designers toolkit. So go ahead expand your Flash application today by getting Vocalise TTS and release your creativity.

Wave TTS ActiveX description
This ActiveX allows adding full text to speech functionality to your programs Wave TTS ActiveX was designed to be an OCX control for software developers Wave TTS ActiveX allows adding full text to speech functionality to your programs.

This ActiveX was built on the Microsoft Text To Speech (from 5.1), you can set the voice of the text to speech, set any PCM formats, set the specific device to speak to ,set the volume, set the rate, save a text to an audio wave file, and more and more....

Wave TTS ActiveX 1.0 can speak directly to sound cards, phone cards, voice modems and any other voice devices, so you can develop many types of applications, such as: answering machine, phone call recorder, caller id, text to speech to wave files, and more windows applications.

Here are some key features of "Wave TTS ActiveX":

· Text To Speech ActiveX
· Set voices
· Set PCM format
· Set output (sound cards, phone cards, voice modems, etc.)
· Set volume.
· Set rate.
· Save TTS to wave file.
· Fully supports TAPI Modem ActiveX
· Fully supports Wave Player Recorder ActiveX.
· Visual Basic samples
· .NET samples.
· Errors handling
· Source code is also available (in a different distribution).


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Wave TTS ActiveX 1.0 is an OCX control for software developers; with this ActiveX you can add a full text to speech functionality your programs. This ActiveX was built on the Microsoft Text To Speech (from 5.1), you can set the voice of the text to speech, set any PCM formats, set the specific device to speak to ,set the volume, set the rate, save a text to an audio wave file, and more and more.... Wave TTS ActiveX [PROGR_VERSION] can speak directly to sound cards, phone cards, voice modems and any other voice devices, so you can develop many types of applications, such as: answering machine, phone call recorder, caller id, text to speech to wave files, and more windows applications. Includes visual basic and vb.net samples.

Do you ever want to convert text to audio? Active TTS is what you want. It can convert text to mp3, text to wma or text to wav on the fly using the state of art text to speech (TTS) system. It converts text to mp3 or text to wma directly without generating any other temporary files. This is the unique feature of Active TTS. You have full control on the quality of the speech file by setting the encoding parameters.

Active TTS wraps SAPI4 and SAPI5 in a simple way to use.
Active TTS is specially designed to convert text to audio file.
Active TTS can convert MP3 to swf (Macromedia flash movie) so that the speech can be embeded in web sites easily

Directly convert text to wav, text to mp3, text to wma, text to ogg, text to vox, text to au and text to aiff format on the fly without temporary files created.
Convert text to speech at high speed and save your disks life as well
Show progress when speaking or converting text
Support SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices.
Convert mp3 to Macromedia flash format, so you can convert text to swf and add mp3 stream speech to web site in realtime
SupportbBatch text to audio conversion
Support TTS events
Support Windows media lossless and speech codec
Examples in VB, VB Script, C#, ASP, C++ Builder, ColdFusion, Delphi, JScript, Perl, PHP , VC++ are provided.
Provide TTS Service tool to make text to speech conversion in IIS more easiler.

Voices are important to a text-to-speech software. There are default voices shipped with Windows 2000 above.

The capability and quality of the speech output are usually determined by the voices. There is a bunch of free voices on the internet for different languages. You can download and try.

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Directly convert text to wave or mp3 on the fly, no temporary files needed, save your disk. Support SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices.

Active TTS Component can be used in VB, VB.Net, C#, Delphi and ASP, ASP.Net. A lot of examples are provided.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Active TTS Component description
Convert text to mp3 or wav on the fly with SAPI4/5 voices Directly convert text to wave or mp3 on the fly, no temporary files needed, save your disk. Support SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant voices.

Active TTS Component can be used in VB, VB.Net, C#, Delphi and ASP, ASP.Net. A lot of examples are provided.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

TextAloud converts any text into spoken words using Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) RealSpeak SAPI5 TTS Voices, Cepstral and NeoSpeech for the best in computer speech for your PC. TextAloud uses voice synthesis to convert text into spoken audio. Listen or your PC or create MP3 or WMA files for use on portable devices like iPods, PocketPCs, and CD players. A batch file converter lets you convert audio files quickly from any number of documents. A new improved interface with support for skins handles multiple documents with ease and includes voice, pitch and volume adjustments on the main window so you can customize voices while TextAloud is speaking. Change voices within a single document to simulate conversation or multiple speakers. You can open Word, PDF and HTML files directly in TextAloud, and there is also an Internet Explorer toolbar plugin to make reading web pages a breeze. A unique Proofread function helps make anything you write mistake free. With TextAloud you can listen immediately, or save to audio files to hear later at your convenience. Instead of the valuable time you spend reading on your computer, imagine being free to relax, get up and stretch, or work on other things while the information you need is read to you in a pleasant, natural sounding human voice. Better still, leave your computer behind. TextAlouds unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion can save your daily reading to audio files to download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. TextAloud is easy to learn so you can put it to work for you right away. Everything is user friendly, from the help function to the VCR style playback controls. It has never been easier to keep up with the information you really need. Includes Firefox toolbar. Support for Natural Voices, Neospeech, Cepstral, Acapela BrightSpeech and Elan, and ScanSoft RealSpeak Voices.