I'm porting an app from Android/iOS and it uses text-to-speech.
Anything like this available for windows phone?
I tried the Bing/Microsoft Translator APIs but they dont work and rumour says they are deprecated: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/259727/Text-to-speech-in-windows-phone7
Nuance is out of the question, as their fees are ridiculous.
Thanks in advance!
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They do work. The Bing API is deprecated for use on Microsoft Translator services, the new format is to obtain tokens.
I was able to implement a library for this, here:
http://msttokenforwp7.codeplex.com/
obtaining tokens.
http://ttsforwindowsphone7.codeplex.com/
text-to-speech library
Starting with Windows Phone 8, there is now a build in TTS engine. More details can be found in the official MSDN documents.
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I'm working on a research project in which we create a new text-to-speech (TTS) engine, that converts text to spoken audio.
As the engine is already performing good, we try to make it usable by a large number of applications which made us want the engine to show up as a TTS voice on Windows 10.
In Microsoft's developer documentations, all I found was information on how I can use exisiting/already installed voices in my application. However, I didn't find any information on how to implement a voice so that it shows up as a Windows voice and can be used by any application using the Speech SDK or SAPI.
Which interface do I have to implement or what API do I have to connect to in order to get our new TTS engine work with Windows Speech?
I already crawled the documentation of the Microsoft Speech SDK as well as developer sites like https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.speech.synthesis.ttsengine
You should look at the TTS Engine Vendor Porting Guide. You need to implement ISpTTSEngine, which does all the work, and ISpObjectWithToken, which manages registration and creation.
I guess the question pretty much says it all?
And I would prefer not to access cloud services such as Microsoft Translator and Project Hawaii?
Is there any direct API I can access?
(For metro apps)
I was able to get the Microsoft Speech Platform working on my Windows 7 laptop (both Voice Recognition and Text-to-Speech). You just need to install SDK and the runtime. You can also download additional Voice and Language packs. I would think it should work on Windows 8 as well. Here is a good sample on how to set it up to recognize some basic phrases like "Find restaurants near Seattle".
There are some new APIs for Windows 8.1:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.media.speechsynthesis.aspx
Text-To-Speech sample:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Speech-synthesis-sample-6e07b218
//build video on Channel9:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-171
There are no Text to Speech or Speech to text libraries available in .Net for Windows 8 apps. System.Speech and such is not available. You will need to roll your own or find compatible 3rd party library.
I use Bing Translator service in my apps, but that has been removed from existance, they brought the text translator services into Azure, but did not bring speech over and they disabled the old website to get API keys for bing translator. Hadn't heard of Project Hawaii before will have to check it out.
Microsoft's speech API seems available in Windows 7. Was it taken out of Windows 8?
You can now Access Bing Services for Windows 8 , the service has been just released and is in Beta1 stage
I see statements on the web about Windows 8 supporting face detection. Is this face detection or face recognition or both? (I don't care so much about recognition.) Is it in an API available inside a WinRT application and/or .Net? Where's the documentation for this API? (MSDN and Google both give me links to Windows Phone 7 stuff.)
There is no built-in API for this in WinRT. You will have to use a web service for this functionality or build one yourself.
Does anyone know a good library or sample code to add new entry to a domain using REST?
Amazon has a full .NET SDK.
Edit
I stand corrected! I wasn't aware Windows Phone was lacking full .NET support.
There is however a blog series here discussing accessing SimpleDb from Windows Phone 7. It covers the signature, which is probably the trickiest part to get right on your own!
Its also probably worth looking at the official .NET SDK in reflector to see what is happening.
The Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone has recently been released. This SDK provides developers with a speed dial that lets you quickly connect and integrate Windows Phone applications with AWS S3, SimpleDB and SQS services.
The SDK can be found from here.
These articles are not about SDK. They're about manually connectting to SimpleDB from Windows Phone; and written before the SDK.
Here is series of articles written in Turkish:
Original: http://muhammedbaykal.com/post/Windows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-I.aspx
Google Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=tr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmuhammedbaykal.com%2Fpost%2FWindows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-I.aspx&act=url
Part II: http://muhammedbaykal.com/post/Windows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-II.aspx
Google Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=tr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmuhammedbaykal.com%2Fpost%2FWindows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-II.aspx&act=url
Part III: http://muhammedbaykal.com/post/Windows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-III.aspx
Google Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=tr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=tr&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmuhammedbaykal.com%2Fpost%2FWindows-Phone-75-Amazon-AWS-SimpleDb-Part-III.aspx&act=url
can we call inbuilt Windows phone mango voice feature programmatically as in we use Launcher and Choosers.
Is there a way I can use this feature for my Translator application where my application recognises the voices spoken in different languages and convert them to text in that particular language.
Do we have this feature in BING Translator service? if yes then how to use them?
also how to use the INbuilt voice command of my WP mango to build my application?
can we call inbuilt Windows phone mango voice feature progamatically as in we use Launcher and Choosers.
No. There is no speech API for Windows Phone as of right now. See Microsoft TellMe for a upcoming API.
Is there a way i can use this feature for my Translator application where my applictaion recogonises the voices spoken in different languages and convert them to text in that particular language.
No
also how to use the INbuilt voice command of my WP mango to build my application?
You can't.
Not sure if you have found an answer for this, but Wade Wegner from the azure team has a translating and OCR app built using the Bing translation services. I have not tried it, but this seems like something you could use.