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Speech Technology / SAPI-4 versus SAPI-5 ???

« on: April 06, 2006, 02:52:30 pm »

I'm sorry, I do appreciate the information, but I don't think I made myself clear in my question.  I'm not currently interested in recording my own voice for the agents, I wanted to have the MS agent read text in the NeoSpeech Mary 16k voice.  Currently, I can only use the built in Microsoft voices (like Mike and the robot voice) with the MS agents.  These voices are quite crude and do not sound natural.  I was hoping that I could somehow get Windows to use the NeoSpeech voice with its agents.  Any help accomplishing this goal is appreciated.

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Speech Technology / SAPI-4 versus SAPI-5 ???

« on: April 05, 2006, 10:31:35 am »

I recently purchased the NeoSpeech package from Zapaware and installed it on my Windows XP Professional computer.  Since then I have had odd results.  The two new voices (NeoSpeech Kate 16k and Neospeech Paul) both work and are avilable for Ultra Hal and the control pannel's default speech selection, but they are not availale for selection or used for the Microsoft agents and several other bot type programs that I have installed.  Oddly enough, running the Haptek SAPI config program allows me to select Kate, but the selection doesn't seem to take (is not permanent).  From my limited research on the topic, it seems that Microsoft uses SAPI-4 text-to-speech while the NeoSpeech TTS is SAPI-5.  Other than this, I know nothing.  My questions are as follows:

- Can the NeoSpeech voices be used for Microsoft agents?
- Can they become the overall default voice for all TTS components in my computer?  If so, how do I set it?
- Are SAPI-4 and SAPI-5 voices incompatible or is one a sub-set of the other.

Any help or direction to documentation would be most appreciated.  Thank you.