text-to-speech for English language using Visual Basic 2008
Dim speech speech = CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.speak(TextBox1.Text)
My question, how this can be used for arabic languages ?
thanks
From a Microsoft support article:
"Microsoft does not provide additional speech engines (voices), but a number of third-party products are available that support the new Microsoft Speech API. For information on these products, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/speech/evaluation/thirdparty/engines.mspx"
Only problem is, that website seems to be down. If you do a search for third-party engines, you'll see a lot of links to that site, too. I'd try to hunt down if it still exists, or try to look for the specific third-party engine you'd need to support Arabic.
No there is no Arabic TTS SAPI available either from MS or third party softwares after searching for long time .
their many online services even few software that support Arabic TTS
Like Acapela which is working only with their software no third party support .
Anyway I think that will not support that much in your project . only if the case you need an Audio output for the text file , not to deal with it interactivity .
Edit==
I just found another software Nuance Vocalizer Voice packs you can found the package here . and this is the Official site .according to the first source it Support SAPI .
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In my application, I am already using Google TTS but I am amazed by Microsoft TTS because they are providing a lot more useful attributes than Google. Since I am more familiar with Google, I would like to keep my implementation but would still like to be able to use MS attributes like:
<mstts:express-as style="cheerful">
That'd be just amazing!
</mstts:express-as>
Is that possible?
There are no style attributes in Google Text-to-Speech, but you can change the Standard voice to a WaveNet voice[1].
The WaveNet voice synthesizes speech with more human-like emphasis and inflection on syllables, phonemes, and words. You can see all the supported voices in Google Text-to-Speech[2].
[1]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet#wavenet_voices
[2]https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/voices
I saw the terms, It's not clear for me if It's for business(ads) or not.
I want if someone can confirm my doubts for me.
If It's not for business can anyone show me other free apis...
Use Microsoft Text Translate API
Microsoft Translator Text API
It has free 2m character translation/month on its free tier
See Pricing Details here
And if you are developing your application in android. Might as well help me debug this since I'm trying to create an MS Translator on android. :)
MS Translator for Android
Does anyone know what software is behind the speech synthesis feature on Google Translate - it does a pretty good job in a number of languages.
I'm not sure but I found;
eSpeak
eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for
English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.
Referance : Google Translate Adds Text-to-Speech for More Languages
Google has their own technology. If they would tell us how they do everything, no one would use their services anymore.
I need to automatically transcribe some short MP3s as part of a proof of concept I am working on. I am currently looking into cloud solutions or web API services to send the MP3 as a simple HTTP request and receive a transcription back.
The only free/open source solution I have found here, but the demos don't seem to work (at least not on the files I need to transcribe). I have found some enterprise solutions for call centers, but so far nothing I can simply integrate into a project.
Are there any web based speech recognition services available? One that is able to filter out small noise would be a plus.
Here is an unofficial method to access Google ASR capability. I just tested on Yesterday and it still works - you can get JSON style ASR output with words and associated confidence score from an FLC audio sampled in 16KHz.
Also you can try speech recognition engine of Windows 7 to produce subtitles. Here is the tool for that.
This may be a good match. Also, their techcrunch profile (See this) lists competitors as: SimulScribe, SpinVox, Vlingo, Nuance, Microsoft, Google
Some of these links may be helpful.
Vlingo, Bing and Google have recognizers in the cloud, but I don't think they make them publicly programmable. I believe they are accessible only from their authorized clients.
For a proof of concept (and low volume), have you considered just using the desktop speech engines that come in Windows 7? What is the difference between System.Speech.Recognition and Microsoft.Speech.Recognition? may be helpful. The MS desktop recognizers ship with a dictation grammar and it sounds like that is what you will need.
I'm doing research to find 3rd party packages/solutions/widgets/back-ends to allow users of a website to upload and edit office documents online in their browser, akin to Google Docs. I haven't had much luck so wanted to see if anyone has any advice or pointers.
Integrating Google Docs is, sadly, not an option, as the documents have to remain stored on our servers only.
ckEditor (and similar) are good rich text content editors, but don't support page formatting and many other features of office documents.
I've found many libraries for converting MS Office, PDF, PS, etc. documents into a common format, but no editor widgets or front-ends that support editing that common format.
Advice on 3rd party solutions or other libraries/widgets I've missed would be really appreciated, whether OSS or proprietary.
You're asking about office productivity suites? I've personally used Zoho and thought it was okay. I'm not sure which of these offer document -> online editing -> save offline document, though.
Wikipedia has lists of these online productivity suites :
Online word processors
Online Office Suites
If you're a Volume Licensed customer of MSFT, you can deploy Office Web Apps (2010) on-premise with SharePoint 2010. TechNet subscribers can also get it - this is what I did - for testing. Everything is x64 (Web Apps, SharePoint, etc.)