Hi all,

Tonight while chatting on the Audiogames.net forum a guy passed on a
link to a free open source Java speech API for VI Java developers.
This is definitely something we could use. Here is the information.

= Phonemic version 1.0, June 1, 2011 =

== Introduction ==

This is the first official release of the Phonemic speech library.
Phonemic is a Java library that allows its users to write
cross-platform speaking applications.

== Big Features ==

* Support for many major speech systems, including Microsoft SAPI,
JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and ORCA.
* Provides a single API to communicate with all engines.
* Support for various types of speech modifications (when available):
    * Volume control
    * Pitch control (either manually or automatically through the
speakChar functions).
    * Speed control
* Speech modifications are consistent across engines.
* Support for blocking speech calls (when available).
* Ability to query an engine for its features.
* Ability to switch engines on the fly (Windows and Mac OS X only).
* A queuing system that enables the use of speech priorities, even
when not supported natively by the engine.
* A speech processing mechanism to enable advanced pre-processing of
speech before it is sent to an engine.
* Ability to query for / change voice when supported by the engine.

== Supported Engines ==

Phonemic currently supports the following platforms and speech engines:
* Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7:

    * Microsoft Speech API (SAPI)
    * JAWS
    * NVDA

* Mac OS X

    * Carbon (on Intel Macs only), the same speech interface used by VoiceOver.
    * The `say' command

* Linux

    * speech-dispatcher (available by default on Vinux and Ubuntu), the
same speech interface used by ORCA.

== Home Page

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phonemic/files/

Cheers!

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