Getting started

• Text-to-Speech Test Page for SAPI 5 voices: test the AT&T speech engines for male and female voices.
• Text-to-Speech Dialogs Using SAPI 5 voices
• Text-to-Speech Test Page for SAPI 4: test the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice speech engine and hear it played back as a wave file
• TTS Dialog Wizard create your own dialogs as recorded wave files
• TTS Interactive Dialog Wizard create interactive student dialogs as recorded wave files
• TTS Dialog Wizard Demo Samples examples of dialogs created with the TTS Dialog Wizard
• TTS Interactive Dialog Samples examples of dialogs created with the TTS Interactive Dialog Wizard
• Agent Character Dialog Writer write dialogs for the animated characters to speak (Internet Explorer only)
• Agent Character Dialog Writer Samples sample dialogs created with the Agent Dialog Writer (Internet Explorer only)
• Agent Character Text Reader Have your text read by the Agent characters (Internet Explorer only)
• Windows Media File presentation: "Resource-assisted learning" with the TTS Narrator (This requires Internet Explorer browser)
• Storyboard game with Text-to-Speech - with SAPI 5 voices
• Jumbler game with Text-to-Speech - with SAPI 5 voices

The aim of this Text-to-Speech resource is to provide help and advice on how you can download and install the speech engine software you need to make your learning easier and fun, and to help you get the most out of using this exciting technology as a learning aid.

To download the MS Agent files and speech engines and the VLC Text-to-Speech support programs follow the steps listed below.