Paul, There are a number of issues concerning what you want to do.
1) Current XP uses SAPI 5 which is not *currently* supported in RR. 2) AT&T Natural Voices are in most people's opinion the very best...and AT&T knows this. They have been *very* hesitant to license them to developers --unless you pay a buttload (texas term) of $$$$. I checked into this a couple of years ago when they first came out. So, if you want to develop an application and bundle the voices with it, it will be very expensive. I suppose a way around this is to force your users to pre-Install something like ReadPlease, though I'm still not sure AT&T would look fondly at a commercial app developed around their technology without them getting a royalty. Interesting to find out what you learn after talking to the ReadPlease folks. My guess, is 'NO, you CAN'T use the voices without licensing them.' best, Chipp > I joined the list just this morning and have missed some of the prior > discussion about Windows TTS. I am hoping my Revolution stack using > revSpeak will be able to access Windows TTS functionality as provided > by <http://readplease.com/rplisten.php>ReadPlease, which uses the > AT&T NaturalSpeak engine. If you have not heard their 16bit voices, > you will be shocked! The Rich and Claire voices are by far the most > natural sounding TTS I have ever heard and may even replace > professional announcers in quality. Unfortunately, chews up massive > system resources. > > I'm hoping some of you have insight on how to make this work. I infer > from early replies to this thread that revSpeak does NOT support XP, > but then this message... > > > I plan to contact ReadPlease tomorrow to find out if the AT&T TTS > software is installed as a system resource and can be accessed by the > Speech Control Panel like the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice I tried > yesterday on W98 machine. Will report back. Not sure if this means > rveSpeak will access it, though. Any opinions? > > Thanks, > Paul Stary _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
