This Speech Media Handler captures the Apple Text Media Handler and speaks the text in addition to rendering it. It can speak English and Japanese. This demo exploits Apple's asynchronous speech techology, multiple channel playback of Sound Manager 3.0, component version control of QuickTime 1.6, and QuickTime's multi-language support.
How to use the Speech Media Handler
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1) You will need at least QuickTime 1.5 and Speech Manager 1.0b5 installed. It is recommended that you install Sound Manager 3.0 to get better sound playback. It is also recommended that you use QuickTime 1.6 in order to take advantage of the unregister message.
2) If you have the Standard Text To Speech dialog, install it's component. If it is not installed, the Speech Media Handler will use a default voice.
3) Install the Speech Media Handler. You can use the Reinstaller II, or reboot with it in the System Folder.
4) Use an application which plays a movie.
5) To uncapture the Apple Text Media handler, use Komponent Killer on the Speech Media Handler.
How to Speak Japanese
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1) You will need KanjiTalk or Japanese Language Kit.
2) If you do not have a Japanese Text Movie, first create a Japanese text movie. Then
use SetMediaLanguage app which sets all the text tracks to Japanese.
3) Install the Speech Media Handler and have fun.
* Don't add any Kanji characters to the movie, because this component can't speech Kanji. It only speaks Hiragana and Katagana.
How to MODIFY the generic capture component to suit your needs
