Convert text to speech on the fly
May 8th, 2007 — ¥ong¥s
Do you ever come across customer’s requirement to convert text (like NEWS) to speech files such as wav, mp3, etc easily? Especially the customer wants to create mp3 directly and attaches it to the news he has just published in MOSS. Here is a good start… http://www.codeproject.com/audio/speech.asp
In this project they made an application program for Text-to-Speech Conversion. To build this application, we must install the SDK speech from Microsoft on our computer (download Speech SDK (it’s free) from http://www.microsoft.comm/speech)
The SAPI API provides a high-level interface between an application and speech engines. SAPI implements all the low-level details needed to control and manage the real-time operations of various speech engines. As mentioned it will required some custom code.