EUROPEANSYNCHROTRONRADIATIONFACILITY
INSTALLATION EUROPEENNE DE RAYONNEMENT SYNCHROTRON |
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TextTalker is a Tango Device Server which can talk.
This server can speak and repeat a text stored in a buffer.
At the ESRF, it is used in the control room to say the error messages.
The users (clients) can set :The users can pause, resume or stop the current voice.the content of the speech buffer. the number of times the buffer will be repeated. the time (in msec) between 2 repeated talks. the gender of the voice ("male" or "female"). the volume of the voice (from 0 to 100). the rate of the voice (from -10 to 10). the priority of the voice if another text-to-speech program is actually running on the same pc as our textTalker server. the welcome text which will be talked at the initialization of the server. What do you need to run the server ?
This server will work on Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP. It won't work on other systems.
To run this server, the Microsoft Text-To-Speech System Version 5.1 must be installed on your system (if it's not already done).
This is not required for Windows XP users, because the engine and voice for Sam are installed as an integral part of Windows XP.
This install is performed using an msi file.
Windows XP and Windows 2000 support msi files, but if you are using an older version of Windows which does not recognize msi files, you will first need to download and install the Microsoft Windows Installer for either Microsoft Windows NT4.0 (1470KB) or Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me (1460 KB).If you wish to install the additional voices for Mike and Mary on Windows XP, you may install the TTS v5.1 Extra Voices for Mike & Mary.
This applies only to Windows XP users. Users of other Windows versions will need to download the full TTS v5.1 Speech System, which includes the voices for Mike and Mary. This install is performed using a Windows XP msi file. You do not need to download anything else.