> Can anyone recommend a text to speech "TTS" program that
> would allow me to create a web app using coldfusion, asp,
> php, etc. (lang doesn't matter) and be able to connect
> to a database for the text which in turn is fed to the TTS
> program which outputs a wav file that can be used by flash
> to import through generator or other and thus having dynamic
> sound being generated through a flash file?
>
> The process would be something like this:
>
> DB --> TextFile --> TTS Program --> WAVFile --> Generator --> Flash
> (of course flash would be the activation point which would
> actually start up the process by going to a db connectivity
> set page such as an ASP file which will kick off the rest.
> Flash's next step through Generator would then be to get the
> Wav file, etc.
Yikes!
Conceivably, you could do some of this using the COM interface of the
Lernout & Hauspie package, which comes with Microsoft Agent 2.0. You'd query
the database using CF (or whatever), retrieve your text, feed it to L & H
via COM, then use the resulting WAV file.
You can get two versions of the L & H engine from the MS Agent site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msagent/
Others are listed there as well.
However, doing this on the server is going to be relatively intensive - you
might be better off doing this on the client if possible. The MS Agent
interface is designed for that, although I do think it requires IE. This, of
course, wouldn't involve Flash at all, although you could use MS Agent and
Flash in the same interface. We've got some sample files using MS Agent
here:
http://www.figleaf.com/figleafhome/cfug/cfugFeb00/web_help_cfug.zip
> Also anyone know of a mailing list specific to generator? (news
> server won't work for me)
No, I don't know of any, but there's a Flash coders list which discusses
some Generator stuff, I believe - and even if they don't, they'll know where
to go for this:
http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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