Pretty sure the eSpeak software - not the synth, but the actual app just uses your machine's default sapi voice, since, for example, if I start it now on this machine it will come up with MS Anna as the default, but have in the past used it with scansoft daniel, etc. etc. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: D!J!X! To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: RE: Generating wav files with Sapi5 tts Unfortunately I'm looking more at a universal approach, where we can get any sapi5 engine to work. For example, the voice i want to use to create this is either microsoft anna or a neospeech voice... ESpeak seems to be it's own synthesizer... THX, D!J!X! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 9:03 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Generating wav files with Sapi5 tts eSpeak has a command line version for generating .wav files from input text: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: QuentinC To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: Re: Generating wav files with Sapi5 tts > Quentin: What do you mean by spoken text? I think the general problem is to find a tool which receives a text as input, and converts it to Wave/MP3, using a synthesizer. Please note that I am not meaning a sound recording utility which captures the voice of the synthesizer while it is speaking. I mean a direct text to wave/MP3, which can encode a , for example 20-minute Wave/MP3 file, out of a text using a synthesizer in a few seconds Yes, I have well understood. DSpeech takes a text file and convert it into wave or MP3, but it is not command line and probably cannot be used as batch. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5635 (20101120) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5636 (20101121) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com