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The Speech Application Programming Interface or SAPI is an API developed by Microsoft to allow the use of speech recognition and speech synthesis within Windows applications. To date, a number of versions of the API have been released, which have shipped either as part of a Speech SDK or as part of the Windows OS itself.
CoolSpeech is a proprietary text-to-speech program for Microsoft Windows platform, developed by ByteCool Software Inc, founded in February 2001. [1] CoolSpeech controls text-to-speech engines compliant with Microsoft Speech API to fetch and read aloud text from a variety of sources, including websites, email accounts, local text documents (.txt, .rtf, .htm/html), the Windows Clipboard ...
FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API. FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers. Gnopernicus uses these in a number of places: to know when text should and should not be interrupted, to better concatenate speech, and to sequence speech in different voices.
The first version of the Microsoft Speech API was released for Windows NT 3.51 and Windows 95 in 1995, it was then part of Windows up to Windows Vista. This initial version already contained Direct Speech Recognition and Direct Text To Speech APIs which applications could use to directly control engines, as well as simplified 'higher-level ...
Festival Speech Synthesis System: CSTR? 2014, December MIT-like license: FreeTTS: Paul Lamere Philip Kwok Dirk Schnelle-Walka Willie Walker... 2001, December 14 2009, March 9 BSD: LumenVox: LumenVox: 2011 2019 Proprietary: Microsoft Speech API: Microsoft: 1995 2012 Bundled with Windows: VoiceText: ReadSpeaker (Formerly Neospeech) 2002 2017 ...
A speech sample of Microsoft Sam, using the SAPI 5 version of the voice. The first part uses a variation of "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" panagram. The second part demonstrates the "soy/soi" glitch associated with Sam. Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
The speech engine itself is driven by the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI), version 4 and above. Microsoft SAPI provides a control panel for easily installing and switching between various available Text to Speech and Speech to Text engines, as well as voice training and scoring systems to improve the quality and accuracy of both engines. [9]
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