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Any text is spoken.
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1. add the text2speech folder to your Matlab path
2. Test your new function:
tts('This is a test.')
Examples:
Casual chat.
tts('Hi - how are you?');
tts({'Hello. How are you?','It is nice to speak to you.','regards SAPI.'})
Emphasising (only for the SAPI version*)
text2speech('You can <EMPH> emphasis </EMPH> text.');
Silence (only for the SAPI version)
text2speech('There will be silence now <SILENCE MSEC=''500''/> and speech again.');
text2speech('You can <pitch middle=''-10''/> drop the pitch.');
text2speech('But you can make it <pitch middle=''+10''/> jump as well.');
*SAPI: Speech SDK 5.1 from Microsoft
Microsoft's TTS Namespace
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.ttsengine(v=vs.85).aspx
Microsoft's Synthesizer Class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.speechsynthesizer(v=vs.85).aspx
Cite As
Wolfgang Garn (2024). text2speech - tts (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/11297-text2speech-tts), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Version | Published | Release Notes | |
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1.2.0.0 | Added function "tts" which uses .NET (but has no special voice features yet as in the previous text2speech version), but overcomes "Visual C++ 2005 or 2008 requirement". |
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1.1.0.0 | Matlab 2009 release (version 7.8+) usage of SpeechSynthesizer recommended. |
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1.0.0.0 |