Speech with Windows XP

[curry]

A thousand pardons for two posts on the same topic, but with all the sensational Rev vs. Real stuff sizzling on the list, maybe some of the plainer topics don't stand out.

I have several projects that need speech, and on Mac that's no problem. On Windows, it was no problem either until XP came along, and from Microsoft's website it looks like the Speech SAPI that the Windows speech external uses only works up to Win2000. If that's correct, then I'm wondering about a fairly easy way to use speech on Windows XP.

I assume there are surely some Revolution users who use text-to-speech in cross-platform projects? I would really appreciate your tips if anyone knows a good way.

Whether it is a DLL or some type of helper app (that can be distributed) or interapplication communication, doesn't matter that much to me as long as it's not too clunky. Or a programming language that has speech features and could be used to make an executable helper app.

I'm also going to contact Tuviah about this and see if he has any suggestions, if so, I'll let you know, but please let me know too if you have any solutions.

I would also be willing to pay for a third-party solution, if it were designed to market to more than one person; I'm not currently situated to hire a custom solution alone and pay more for making Rev talk on XP than for Revolution itself! TTS complements a wide variety of applications. I think it's really worth having cross-platform.

Curry
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