Hello, Minutes ago just had a bit of a minor programming epiphany.
A teacher on an EFL (English as a Foreing Language) mailing list pointed me to: http://neospeech.com/ It's a text-to-speech service, and I was amazed how well intelligible and ear pleasing it was. The state of the art has certainly improved from what I remember way back when! So, seeing profound new possiblities for my language classroom, I immediately popped open Rev to see if it had text-to-speech functions and, lo and behold!, there was the revSpeak command. Gave it a whirl with... revSpeak "hello world'" ... and two reactions. First, wow that was simple. Rev is brilliant! Second was, what the hey!! For my target users -- young EFL learners -- not only is "Microsoft Sam" unintelligible but he'd either give them the giggles or scare them into tears. Looking at the Rev documentation, I guess the problem is the API. But this is all very new to me, so I don't really know. If the holy grail of voice-quality I'm after here is the API (or is it SAPI?), would anyone have a recommendation or experience with great Windows text-to-speech APIs/SAPIs? I'd of course also welcome general advise about text-to-speech APIs/SAPiS, especially how to integrate one with my standalones. Thank you. -- Nicolas Cueto _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
