Microsoft Speech Platform has upgraded to Version 11.0. It includes many improvements on SR and TTS engines in the past year. There is a MSDN web page for more detail information about the speech platform http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

Happy new year! It is 2011. Recently I got a customer question regarding "SupportedAudioFormats". He used the Server Speech Platform 10.2. But he found the SupportedAudioFormats of speechsynthesizer is empty. This is because of some issue in service...

If you are a developer that is looking for some help on using TTS in your project, there is an alias you can try. speak AT microsoft.com It is not a fulltime product support contact but you might get some suggestion to your problem. You can also give...

According to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/extensible-platform.aspx "State-of-the-art speech technology now in 26 languages provided by the updated Microsoft Speech Platform, a zero-royalty, enterprise grade server based speech platform that...

When we think about improving TTS voice quality, we always need to consider the scenerio that TTS are used in. For example, if the scenerio is accessiblity, TTS needs to be highly intelligible in all conditions. If the scenerio is reading turn by turn...

If you got a chance to play a Windows phone 7, you can try out speech feature in it. It has three cool speech features: voice search, voice activated dialing and start application by command. In these scenerios, Zira TTS will use to speak the text...

This post will talk about some frequent questions when using TTS functionality in Microsoft Server Speech Platform. I will keep it updated as new questions come up. For the detailed usage of the API, please go to MSDN. · Why SpeechSynthesizer...

In previous post , I introduced the microsoft speech platform is available to download. Here is a short introduction on how to use the TTS functionality provided by the platform. The steps are: 1. Download and install the speech platform runtime and...

Recently Bing app for Windows Mobile has added free turn by turn directions. TTS is used to read out the address during navigation. http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2010/05/11/updated-bing-app-for-windows-phone.aspx If you have...

In Office 2010, there is a new cool feature to read the text aloud with Microsoft TTS. Here is the post about how to use it. It can use the latest speech platform voices in 26 languages. http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/04/14/hear...

Want to build your speech application with speech recognitions and synthesis? Install the package below, you can now use SR and TTS in 26 language easily. For the Runtime, please download the Microsoft Speech Platform - Server Runtime 10.1 ...

Bing Translator ( http://www.microsofttranslator.com/Default.aspx ) enables TTS output for translation result last week. You now can not only know what the translated results would be but also learn how to read the translated results in the language by...

We released 12 TTS voices in 12 languages with UCMA SDK (also called as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 SDK) . The Microsoft speech engines bundled with the API support twelve different languages, including English (North America, United...

MSDN Speech portal is online now. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/speech/default.aspx From here you can get access to latest Microsoft Speech technologies including Speech API, Speech recognition and Text to speech etc. Come on and try the newest...

Tellme today announces that it has deployed a female voice called Zira on their platform, the largest VXML voice platform. The Zira voice is driven by recent MS TTS technology. Tellme customers now can access Zira voice in their applications. If you...

Dear reader, If you have any suggestion or feedback when using MS TTS on Vista or Windows 7 or TTS APIs, this blog is a place you can post your comments about: 1. issues you find when using TTS in current products 2. suggestions you have in mind...

In this post, I will show you how to use TTS with the managed Speech API (System.Speech.dll) in C#. This API is introduced since Windows Vista. It supports the tranditional SAPI engines and SSML The steps are as below. 1. create a console C#...

In this post, I will show you how easily you can make your first TTS application with C#. This example will use the COM interop to call SAPI functionality because SAPI has implemented a number of automation objects that can be directly used in C# or any...

Windows 7 beta is ready to test drive now. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx I have installed it on two of my computers. So far, I feel good about it. And I am trying to install it on my home computer. If you want...

Sliverlight is becoming wider adoption than years before. I have been viewing showcases on the sliverlight website today. http://silverlight.net/Showcase/ In general, the UI looks rich and flexible by using this technology. Some sites I have...

TTS means "Text to speech" which is the technology to let computer speak to you. In short, you can input the text to computer, then a computer algorithm (so called TTS engine) will analyze the text, determine the pronunciation, synthesize the sound...

I should have read this book when I prepared my entrance test for master degree. It is a really good book about compiler design. But it was about 8 years agao, I have forgotten the details in the book. :( En, I plan to add it into my computer book...

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