Fine-tune Speech Synthesis Using Text-to-Speech Markup

Chant VoiceMarkupKit

Avoid putting your end users to sleep with boring synthesized speech. You will be amazed at how adjusting the speed, adding pauses, injecting emphasis, and switching voices can break up the monotony of synthesized speech.

Text-to-speech (TTS) markup is text with imbedded indicators that control speech synthesis from the text. Speaking qualities such as the speed, pitch, emphasis, and word pronunciation may be tailored in reproducing speech from text.

A TTS grammar is a collection TTS markup. A text-to-speech engine (i.e., synthesizer) uses TTS markup to enhance its ability to synthesize speech from text and generate the audio for playback.

What is Voice Markup Management?

Synthesizers (i.e., speech APIs) support unique markup syntax. By generating TTS markup at runtime, your application can maximize the quality of TTS playback and offer your end users the flexibility of using various synthesizers with your application.

What is VoiceMarkupKit?

Chant VoiceMarkupKit is comprised of application ready software components that handle the complexities of text-to-speech (TTS) markup language management that enables you to generate TTS markup to enhance the playback quality when synthesizing.

The VoiceMarkupKit component library includes a voice markup management class that provides you a simple way to generate text-to-speech markup. Your application can markup text as part of its runtime operation to enable real-time customization and tailoring of your text-to-speech environment.

It simplifies the process of generating Nuance L&H Native Control Sequence, Microsoft SAPI 4, Microsoft SAPI 5, and W3C SSML markup language to use with your favorite speech synthesizers.

VoiceMarkupKit includes ActiveX, C++, C++Builder, Delphi, Java, .NET Framework, Silverlight, and Web component library formats to support all your programming languages and provides sample projects for popular IDEs—such as the latest Visual Studio 2011 from Microsoft.

The component libraries can be integrated with 32-bit, 64-bit, and mobile applications.

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