What is Text-to-Speech?
Text-to-speech is a process through which text is rendered as
digital audio and then spoken .
TTS has a big potential of the market's five major segments:
education, disabled, computer interface, consumer and
telecommunications.
InstallTTS
Install MS Text-to-Speech Engine from specified path.
The command first tests the system if such installation is
needed.
If user doesn't have TTS engine installed on his system, MMB
can very fast install it. You have to just put the TTS
installation exe file on your CD and the rest is very fast and
automatic.
The tts installation should be on Multimedia Builder
directory inside TTS folder. There should be the file :
msttss22L.exe
If this file is not there (it has 2MB) you have to download it from the internet. Go to www.mediachance.com download page. (Note : In internet distributed MMB this file is not included û it would make the MMB installation too big for downloading)
If you planning to use TTS in your program for distribution
you should call InstallTTS on the beginning of the program. If
user already has TTS engine, the comand will continue with no
delay.
InitTTS
Initialize TTS engine. This could take a few seconds on slow
computer so the best place is to put it on the beginning of
the program after InstallTTS command. This command displays
small black box saying û Installing TTS, Please wait.
Say
Say the text.The TTS engine must be installed and
Initialized.
SpeakText
Speak the text of any object which has text : Text Object,
Paragraph Object, Button.
The TTS engine must be Installed and Initialized.
StopTTS
Stop what TTS is currently saying.
PauseTTS
Pause what TTS is currently saying, you can resume it by
ResumeTTS command
ResumeTTS
Resume paused speech.
PitchTTS
The Pitch of the voice. (Frequency Hz) Between 50 - 200,
default is 100
SpeedTTS
The Speed of the voice. (Words/minute) Between 30 - 450,
default is 150