Better - Text To Wave 2005 DLL™
Research-Lab's High-Level Speech Synthesis
SDK 1.16 for Windows Development
Welcome ActiveX Developers!
Updated January 2005
This documentation provides getting started and reference information for developers who want to use the ActiveX controls or Dll's provided with Version 1.5 of the Research Labs Speech Software Developer's Kit (SDK) based on Microsoft SAPI 5.1 . This SDK provides the tools, information, and samples you need to incorporate speech into your Windows applications.
What's new in 1.16
- Multithreading for Telephony/Internet Server
- XML Scripting
- 50 + Output Audio Formats
- Real-time modification of longer Wave Files (no need to reproduce time consuming large wave files. Great for web site people)
- MTS/COM+ Transaction Support for Windows NT/2000/Advanced Server
- Server Side Execution or Active Server Page Samples
- Chinese/Japanese TTS Engine + 11 other languages
- SAPI 5.1 Third Party Engine Support
- SAPI 1.4 Support
- Wave To Mp3/WMA Compression Support
- Improved documentation
When you are ready to begin, see the following sections:
- About This SDK
Provides an overview of who should use this SDK, what's new in version 1.0, and the documentation conventions used. This section also explains how to send feedback or get help. - Background
Provides an overview of current computer speech technologies, including command and control, dictation, text to speech, and telephony. - Properties, Methods, Events, XML Tags Description, Wave Formats Supported
- FAQ and Examples
- Runtime required components and speech
engine
List of the runtime files (C++, ttw, vb and others) is available here.
