Re: Recommendations for a text to speech component?

Android Cat wrote:
> GB Blanchard wrote:
>>
>> I see that Android Cat (Ron) showed me something similar (thanks Ron)
>> - and it works - but I now realize that I forgot to mention I need
>> this for Spanish. Even the sapi.dll installed on my Spanish XP seems
>> to be for English, since I typed in some Spanish text and the result
>> is almost unintelligible, whereas English text is not pretty, but it
>> is understandable. Hopefully the SAPI page will address the 'other
>> languages' issue.
>
> Hmm, I hadn't noticed that MS only has free SAPI 5 TTS engines for US
> English, simple Chinese and Japanese.
> http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

This download *might* get you a Spanish TTS engine for SAPI 5:
Microsoft Speech Server Spanish (United States) Language Pack 1.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=227A88DE-8A31-4CA8-B1C2-0EC3B0FC6D95&displaylang=en

The initial install program might give you the option to just get the engine
and skip the rest, but proceed at your own risk. :^)

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Ron Sharp.


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