My Ramblings - About TTS and Speech Synthesis Technologies

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8/6/2021

Microsoft Speech Platform 11.0

Microsoft Speech Platform has upgraded to Version 11.0. It includes many improvements on SR and TTS...

Author: myblog1 Date: 09/11/2011

Question about SupportedAudioFormats of SpeechSynthesizer

Happy new year! It is 2011. Recently I got a customer question regarding "SupportedAudioFormats". He...

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/01/2011

Where to ask for TTS support?

If you are a developer that is looking for some help on using TTS in your project, there is an alias...

Author: myblog1 Date: 12/01/2010

TTS in Microsoft Lync

According to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/extensible-platform.aspx "State-of-the-art speech...

Author: myblog1 Date: 11/05/2010

What do you use TTS for?

When we think about improving TTS voice quality, we always need to consider the scenerio that TTS...

Author: myblog1 Date: 10/20/2010

TTS in Windows Phone 7

If you got a chance to play a Windows phone 7, you can try out speech feature in it. It has three...

Author: myblog1 Date: 09/19/2010

FAQ about The Server Speech Platform

This post will talk about some frequent questions when using TTS functionality in Microsoft Server...

Author: myblog1 Date: 07/29/2010

Use TTS functionality in Microsoft Speech Platform

In previous post, I introduced the microsoft speech platform is available to download. Here is a...

Author: myblog1 Date: 06/25/2010

Recently Bing app for Windows Mobile has added free turn by turn directions. TTS is used to read out...

Author: myblog1 Date: 06/10/2010

Use Microsoft TTS to read office documents with Office 2010

In Office 2010, there is a new cool feature to read the text aloud with Microsoft TTS. Here is the...

Author: myblog1 Date: 04/14/2010

Bing Translator with Microsoft TTS functionality now!

Bing Translator (https://www.microsofttranslator.com/Default.aspx) enables TTS output for translation...

Author: myblog1 Date: 03/16/2010

Programming with latest MS TTS engines

We released 12 TTS voices in 12 languages with UCMA SDK (also called as Microsoft Office...

Author: myblog1 Date: 05/03/2009

MSDN Speech Launched

MSDN Speech portal is online now. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/speech/default.aspx From here you...

Author: myblog1 Date: 05/03/2009

Tellme deploys Zira voice with MS TTS technology

Tellme today announces that it has deployed a female voice called Zira on their platform, the...

Author: myblog1 Date: 04/30/2009

Text to speech feedback

Dear reader, If you have any suggestion or feedback when using MS TTS on Vista or Windows 7 or TTS...

Author: myblog1 Date: 04/12/2009

Hello world to TTS (2)

In this post, I will show you how to use TTS with the managed Speech API (System.Speech.dll) in C#....

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/26/2009

Hello world to TTS (1)

In this post, I will show you how easily you can make your first TTS application with C#. This...

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/25/2009

Try Windows 7

Windows 7 beta is ready to test drive now....

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/25/2009

Time to learn silverlight

Sliverlight is becoming wider adoption than years before. I have been viewing showcases on the...

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/24/2009

TTS introduction

TTS means "Text to speech" which is the technology to let computer speak to you. In short, you can...

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/14/2009

Dragon book

I should have read this book when I prepared my entrance test for master degree. It is a really good...

Author: myblog1 Date: 01/10/2009

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