Well, now also tried specifically upgrading internet explorer to IE9, and at
least one of the server side implementations of using HTML5 audio playback
worked now, whereas the client-side, javascript one only seems to work in
firefox 14 thus far, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arno Kuhl" <arno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Jacob Kruger'" <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: codeProject article on TTS for the web
Thanks for the links, could be quite useful.
Cheers
Arno
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Kruger [mailto:jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 August 2012 01:30 PM
To: php-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: codeProject article on TTS for the web
This article makes use of 4 separate examples/ways to try dynamically
generate/output TTS content using PHP pages, requesting TTS content via
webpages, making use of google translate, speechUtil.com and
text2Speech.org
for server side requests for output audio files, but also makes use of a
sort of client side javascript port of the eSpeak TTS synth:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/435434/Text-to-Speech-tts-for-the-Web
Only real issues seem to be browser compatibility, but they seem to have
tested it, and are sort of making use of primarily HTML5 audio tags, which
won't work too well backwardly compatible, but still.
For example, while the clientSide javascript port of eSpeak works alright
in
mozilla fireFox 14 here, the other examples don't appear to be playing
rendered audio automatically via internet explorer 8 as such, which is
still
my primary browser, but could probably easily enough make minor changes to
the PHP code to render that part of the audio playback process work a bit
better on it, but, the other issue is I know, for example, google
translate
doesn't like automated server side requests from my website...<smile>.
Either way, if you want, I have put these samples up on a page here - and,
the reason the eSpeak example may take a little time to load is the
javascript port comes to over 2Mb:
http://www.blindza.co.za/webTTS/
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
--
PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
