Dave,
Thanks for your feedback. Why would you say it would be better to do it
client side as opposed to server side?
I'm guessing it's really a questions of performance/speed in getting the
text to wav and then having it come into a flash file? Unfortunately
because the user base will not be controlled, an IE only solution won't
work. And because of the real need to have the solution server side I
think I'll be stuck heading that route. :: Wonders if throwing more
hardware at the problem would solve it ::
>From your posting is it then safe to say If I were to go with a server
side solution, purchasing of an L & H product would not be necessary
since a version of it comes with MS Agent that I can use instead? I had
tried giving them a ring but alas they did not want to recommend a
shrink wrap package and was more interested in providing a "solution."
If by using the Agent the result is the same then of course that would
be more to my liking as the cost won't be an issue :)
Finally I haven't really had a chance to get into COM all that much any
materials you can point me to, to get me started?
Thanks,
Jack
P.S. By the way just wanted to say I thought the presentation you
figleaf guys put together down at Bethesda a couple of months ago was
awesome, Flash front end interfaces to apps that really cook. You could
hear the ooohs and aaaahs in the auditorium. What will you guys think of
next? ;)
Dave Watts wrote:
>
> > 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/
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