EasySpeech Controls v2.0

IEasySpeak

The IEasySpeak interface enables an application to perform text synthesis operations.
Properties Description
AboutLicenseKey
For registered users only.
AboutLicenseType
AboutUserName
CurrEngineMode Specify the desired synthesizer (TTS engine).
Device Specify the desired waveform output device (default: sound card).
DeviceID Specify the ID of desired waveform output device.
EngineModes Returns the reference of enumeration collection interface --IEnumTTSEngineModes which provides COM-standard enumeration methods for the ITTSEngineModeInfo interface.
Format Sets/returns currect output wave format. (For SAPI 5.1 only)
InternalTTSInterface Returns the internal reference interface of SAPI TTS module.
IsTaggedText
Indicates that for SAPI 5.1 the text will be parsed for XML markup; for SAPI 4.0 it will assume as tagged text.
Rate Sets/returns the rate of the synthesizer.
Volume Sets/returns the synthesizer's output volume.

 

Methods Description
AboutBox Displays the about info of this control.
Pause Pauses the speaking.
Resume Resumes paused speaking.
ShowConfigureDialog Displays the configure property page dialog.
Speak Speaks the given text asynchronously.
SpeakToFile Speaks given text to file in WAV-format.
Stop Stops the speaking asynchronously.

 

Events Description
OnAudioLevel Occurs when the SAPI audio object detects a change in audio level.
OnBookMark Occurs when the text-to-speech (TTS) engine detects a bookmark while speaking a stream.
OnDebug Occurs when debug information is available.
OnStreamEnd Occurs when the text-to-speech (TTS) engine reaches the end of a stream while speaking.
OnStreamStart Occurs when the text-to-speech (TTS) engine begins speaking a stream.
OnViseme Occurs when the text-to-speech (TTS) engine detects a viseme boundary while speaking a stream.
OnWordBound Occurs when it reachs the beginning of a word.

See Also

IEasySpeak is compatible with Microsoft SAPI 4.0 or SAPI 5.1. [SAPI (Speech API) is the Microsoft standard interface for Speech Recognition (SR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) engines. ]

  • For SAPI 4.0, If your system have no SAPI 4.0 installed, please download the program from the Microsoft SAPI download page or from our web site download page.
  • For SAPI 5.1, which is the version shipped with Windows XP. Users of other Windows versions will need to install SAPI 5.1 first. SAPI 5.1 is available free of charge from the Microsoft web site. http://www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/

    You also need to have a TTS (Text-to-Speech) engine installed on your computer. A number of these engines are available from different vendors. Microsoft, for example, offers a freely redistributable TTS engine at Microsoft web site.