Odd. It didn't work for me. Bob
On Mar 4, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > 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 > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
