TTS on Windows

 

  

Windows currently has two speech APIs. One is SAPI4 on Windows 2000. The other is SAPI5 since Windows XP.

However, it is possible to use SAPI5 on windows 2000 or even windows 9x. You can install Speech SDK 5.1 which has included SAPI and some free TTS voices as well as speech recognition engines.

Our TTS products, Active TTS/Speak Aloud support both SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices. It also means they depend on SAPI4 or SAPI5. So the machines should have SAPI4/SAPI5 and some TTS voices installed beforehand.

This entry was written by admin on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Product Development, Text to Speech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.