On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Weston Ruter wrote: > > I've been working on a web app which reads text in a web page, highlighting > each word as it is read. For this to be possible, a Text-To-Speech API is > needed which is able to: > (1) generate the speech audio from some text, and > (2) include the time indicies for when each of the words in the text is > spoken. > > Microsoft has its Sapi.SpVoice API via ActiveXObject which does (1) but not > (2) apparently. There are web services (usable in conjunction with HTML5 > Audio) which also do (1) such as the iSpeech > API<http://www.ispeech.org/api> and > Google Translate's TTS < > http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?q=Hello%2C+World&tl=en>, but none > that I have found which do (2). In any case, web services > aren't preferable since they require that the audio be transferred over the > network which could take a significant amount of time. > > Is anyone aware of any work done to develop a standard TTS API for the Web? > Operating systems already have this functionality built-in, and it's a shame > that web apps can't make use of it. If Google Gears were alive, it would've > been a good place to prototype this, but alas�
In addition to the suggestions made by Olli, you may also wish to read this thread, which includes some other people interested in this topic: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-December/thread.html#24281 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
