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the speech module converts
a speech requirement and a behaviour into actual speech this allows speech sets to be customised easily for a particular audience or language the speech returned by the database may be in the form of a wav file of audio which is replayed using standard ms multimedia dll calls or a text string which is converted to speech using text to speech technology ms speech api (sapi) version 5.1 was downloaded from the ms website and example programs were used as a basis for the code a comprehensive web trawl was executed in an attempt to find a free or low-cost uk english voiceno such voice could be found for sapi version 5.1 but a free lernout and hauspie uk english voice was found for sapi version 4 the speech system was downgraded to sapi version 4.0 so that this voice could be used the sapi5 version of the module was superior in that it used a com control rather than an activex control which means that an invisible form is not required both sapi4 and sapi5 allow control over emphasis in the speech by use of embedded tags |
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