Speech-enabling your software is easy, says Stephen Morris. If speech is added in a sympathetic fashion, it can raise the standard of your user interface in subtle but powerful ways. This approach potentially opens up new markets to your software products; for example, reaching visually impaired users. Developments in web standards are also dictating that speech-enabled software is essentially a commodity item. Read on to find out more.
Speech-Enable Your Java Software
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…using Windows there is PyTTS which wraps the MS speech engine.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr02.shtml
Davy
a wrapper only works for windows. no thanks
Edited 2006-09-04 23:04
The world’s not perfect I’d love a cross-platform TTS for python.
Now if someone wrapped festival…
Davy
python is not performant enough for that. that is why FreeTTS is written under Java.