Speech synthesis
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Render the text “This is an example of speech synthesis.” as speech.
C#
You need to 'Add Reference' to the COM "Microsoft Speech Object Library" in your Preferences. <lang csharp>using SpeechLib;
namespace Speaking_Computer {
public class Program { private static void Main() { var voice = new SpVoice(); voice.Speak("This is an example of speech synthesis."); } }
}</lang>
PicoLisp
<lang PicoLisp>(call 'espeak "This is an example of speech synthesis.")</lang>
Tcl
This just passes the string into the Festival system:
<lang tcl>exec festival --tts << "This is an example of speech synthesis."</lang>
Alternatively, on MacOS X, you'd use the system say
program:
<lang tcl>exec say << "This is an example of speech synthesis."</lang>
On Windows, there is a service available by COM for speech synthesis:
<lang tcl>package require tcom
set msg "This is an example of speech synthesis." set voice [::tcom::ref createobject Sapi.SpVoice] $voice Speak $msg 0</lang> Putting these together into a helper procedure, we get: <lang tcl>proc speak {msg} {
global tcl_platform if {$tcl_platform(platform) eq "windows"} { package require tcom set voice [::tcom::ref createobject Sapi.SpVoice] $voice Speak $msg 0 } elseif {$tcl_platform(os) eq "Darwin"} { exec say << $msg } else { exec festival --tts << $msg }
} speak "This is an example of speech synthesis."</lang>
UNIX Shell
Here we use the open source espeak tool:
<lang bash>#!/bin/sh espeak "This is an example of speech synthesis."</lang>