Hello, So as I am understanding this, it might be best to use SSML, and work directly with a particular synths api (eg. use the espeak shared library) to make things cross platform (as we have no cross platform common access system like speech-dispatcher is on Linux). As I know people don't always like the sound of espeak, I could output the text with SSML to a file so that it could be used by another synth (I think I might have seen comments in festival about it supporting SSML), but I might not guarantee it works (eg. if the Microsoft sapi standard varies slightly then it might not speak as I really want it to). Thanks for the help. From Michael Whapples On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 21:39 -0500, David Poehlman wrote: > know if it works with apple? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:44 AM > Subject: Re: Making speech synthesisers speak a particular way > > > > On 02 Jan, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> wrote: > > > I am looking at adding speech output to a program I am writing, and > > am wondering about the best way to achieve the style of speech (eg. > > pauses in the correct places, correct punctuation level spoken, etc) > > for this. I know of (heard of, but don't know much about) things like > > SSML, would this be what I need to look at? > > Yes, SSML will give a better chance of using different synthesizers. > See: http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis > > eSpeak supports many of the SSML tags. > Although others such as <prosody contour=> make no sense to me. > > The recently released eSpeak version 1.30 has improvements to its > implementation of <break> and <emphasis> tags. > > <emphasis> is useful to put the emphasis on other than the final word > of a sentence. > > <break time=""> was broken in eSpeak 1.30 but fixed now in 1.30.01. > > I don't know whether you can use SSML through SAPI5. It seems that, as > usual, Microsoft has its own, non-standard standard. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >
