Text to Speech(mp3) conversion in flash
Hi ,
I want to convert text to Speech without using Google api.So that I can run the application offline.
So is there a way to convert text to Speech (mp3) and upload the converted mp3 file in a folder in flash as3.
Thanks.
I have found that Text-to-Speech works just fine in Yosemite's Preview application — without changing any standard settings. I added additional voices, and it works equally well with these too. You should not expect Text-to-Speech functionality with text that is incorporated into a graphic though.
Both Edit > Speech > Start Speaking, and after enabling in Text-to-Speech Preferences, Speak selected text when the key is pressed (option+Esc).
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I need a Text to Speech conversion program
Hi everyone,
I need a program for conversion of text to speech(TTS) in java. If you have this program or website address. please send me as much fast as possibleOkay, I wrote this a looong time ago with intentions to only use as a joke (sorry if it is not well structured)...
I turn the speakers up very loud in my cubicle and make my computer call out to other people in the office... "Help Help, someone help me... " or "Joe... why do you abuse me so?" you get the idea... hehe.. anyway, two Classes: Gui and SpeechModule. Enjoy, I have. : )
GUI
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import oracle.jdeveloper.layout.XYLayout;
import oracle.jdeveloper.layout.XYConstraints;
import java.awt.Insets;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
public class Gui extends JFrame {
protected SpeechModule speechModule = new SpeechModule();
JButton cmdSpeak = new JButton();
XYLayout xYLayout1 = new XYLayout();
JScrollPane jScrollPane1 = new JScrollPane();
JTextArea txtWords = new JTextArea();
JTextField txtPitch = new JTextField();
JTextField txtShift = new JTextField();
public Gui() {
super("Java Speech");
try {
jbInit();
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public static void main(String[] args) {
Gui gui = new Gui();
gui.show();
private void jbInit() throws Exception {
this.getContentPane().setLayout(xYLayout1);
this.addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
this_windowClosing(e);
cmdSpeak.setText("Speak");
cmdSpeak.setActionCommand("cmdSpeak");
cmdSpeak.setMargin(new Insets(0, 0, 0, 0));
cmdSpeak.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
cmdSpeak_actionPerformed(e);
xYLayout1.setWidth(454);
xYLayout1.setHeight(327);
txtWords.setText("Hello. Hello. Testing one two three.");
txtWords.setSelectionEnd(1);
txtPitch.setText("10");
txtShift.setText("100");
jScrollPane1.getViewport().add(txtWords, null);
this.getContentPane().add(txtShift, new XYConstraints(40, 260, 55, 25));
this.getContentPane().add(txtPitch, new XYConstraints(40, 220, 55, 25));
this.getContentPane().add(jScrollPane1, new XYConstraints(50, 40, 360, 150));
this.getContentPane().add(cmdSpeak, new XYConstraints(160, 230, 75, 25));
this.setSize(600, 400);
void cmdSpeak_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("pitch" + Float.valueOf(txtPitch.getText()).floatValue());
System.out.println("pitchShift" + Float.valueOf(txtShift.getText()).floatValue());
speechModule.setPitch( Float.valueOf(txtPitch.getText()).floatValue() );
speechModule.setPitchShift( Float.valueOf(txtShift.getText()).floatValue() );
speechModule.speak(txtWords.getText());
private void this_windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
System.exit(0);
SpeechModule
import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.audio.JavaClipAudioPlayer;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMULexicon;
public class SpeechModule {
public static Class voiceClass = null;
static {
try {
//voiceClass = Class.forName("CMUDiphoneVoice");
voiceClass = Class.forName("com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUDiphoneVoice");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
cnfe.printStackTrace();
private Voice voice = null;
public SpeechModule() {
try {
this.voice = (Voice) voiceClass.newInstance();
voice.setPitch(100);
voice.setPitchShift(10000);
} catch (InstantiationException ie) {
ie.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalAccessException iae) {
iae.printStackTrace();
voice.setLexicon(new CMULexicon());
voice.setAudioPlayer(new JavaClipAudioPlayer());
voice.load();
public void setPitch(float n){
voice.setPitch(n);
public void setPitchShift(float n){
voice.setPitchShift(n);
public void speak(String value) {
voice.speak(value);
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Adobe Flash - text to speech software
Is there a software out there that can convert Adobe Flash
text to speech?Hi Aimee,
Please see : http://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/kb/captivate-5-text-speech-converters.html
this will help you. -
Text to Speech conversion - Does anyone recommend any software?
I am currently looking at a way to convert the written text in my captivate modules into spoken word without recording a voice over. Ive only just started digging into it and wondered if Captviate itself has a way of doing this, or if any kind of 3rd party applications plug into Captviate to do it? Im on mac if that helps.
If neither of the above is possible, does anyone recommend any text to speech tools. I am really after something more along the lines of Siri etc rather than the old school more robotic sounding converters. I really am after something more natural and more believable as human.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
JayI have just discovered the in built content. The standard ones arent great so I have installed the Neospeech content. Ive just posted a problem I have encountered with those though. I would prefer an UK English male as its to represent a character I have created but I could settle with Paul if I cant find a better alternative.
I had considered voicing it myself but I dont want the character to become me or vice versa as the content will be used in my organisation and people will associate him with me. -
I have created PDF from hardcopy by using my scanner. After I run OCR option for my PDF by using Acrobat Pro 9. But "Text-to-speech" functionality of the PDF says that an error message comes up that says the page is empty when I turns on the read out loud option in Acrobat. Kindly help me to sortout this problems?
So I tried generating the same PDFs on two other computers that have Acrobat 9 Pro. Results were reproduced. The verdict is:
- complex PDF files (that is, containing cross-references, tables of contents, and bookmarks) generated by Acrobat 9.x Pro are roughly 2-5x larger than the identical file generated with Acrobat 8.x Pro.
- different PDF conversion settings make a negligable difference (less than 10% rather than 70-80%).
- using the "Reduce File Size" or "Optimize PDF" option cuts the file size roughly in half, almost always resulting in a "image downsampling mask" warning message, which requires acknowledgement (that is a problem for batch processing or automation).
- adding an Acrobat watermark to the file cuts the file size roughly in half.
- just using Save As to another filename has no effect on file size.
- generating the PDF in Acrobat 9 with links but no PDF bookmarks still results in the inflated file size.
- generating the PDF in Acrobat 9 without any links or bookmarks results in approximately the same file size as the Acrobat 8 PDF with full links and bookmarks.
It appears that Acrobat 9's manner of adding links is what's bloating the files, and in my case it's probably not related to images or image resolution/print quality. It's a shame, because Acrobat 9 seems to have made some improvements to the Review Tracker interface, and a few other bells and whistles which I haven't really gotten around to exporing yet. But unless I find a way to keep my links and the PDF file sizes comparable to what I was getting with Acrobat 8 Pro, it looks like I'm going to stay with Acrobat 8. -
Missing Some Text-To-Speech When Course Replays
I have a course (114 slides) that was developed in Captivate 6. On the last slide of the course, I have placed a "main menu" button that allows the learner to return to the main menu and repeat lessons in the course if desired. The first time the learner views the course, everything works perfectly. If the learner repeats the course, the text-to-speech audio is missing from 2 slides. The audio does not cut out at all when previewing, only in the published file. I am publishing to SCORM 1.2.
Here is what I have done to try and resolve the problem:
- Confirmed that the audio on the timeline was on.
- Cleared unused items from library.
- Deleted original audio from slides and replaced, then republished.
- Resaved under a new file name, to a new location and republished.
- Checked Force Republish all slides and republished.
- Removed compression / compression of SWF and republished.
- Added more silence at the beginning and end of the slide.
- Tried publishing in Flash 10 and Flash 11.
Can anyone offer any additional suggestions for solutions? Many thanks for your time.I have some questions:
Is this voiceover audio or Text to Speech audio?
When you say you added more silence at the beginning and end of the slide do you mean silence added via the Slide Audio dialog in Captivate or silence copied and pasted in from pauses between words in the recorded audio?
Did you make sure that you moved the audio clips away from the beginning and end of the slide by at least one or two tenths of a second to ensure Captivate does not 'stitch' the clips together with those on previous or next slides? -
Captivate 4 text to speech function
I just downloaded the trial version for Captivate 4. I
specifically wanted to see the new text to speech function that
they have added to it. When I downloaded it and tried to use it, I
received an error message that stated "Unable to decode and import
the selected wav/mp3 file". Is anyone familiar with this?This did work and my Captivate is working great!
Thank you!
JPCaptivate <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Please update your Captivate 4 application by installing the latest patch available. To install patch, launch Captivate and follow menu items "Help > Update". Captivate 4 patch update will be recognized and installed on your system.
Once patch is installed, try to record the same scenario. Do let us know if the recording succeeds for you.
Thanks
Jayashree
http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate
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Vocalizer / Text to Speech Type Products
Hi,
can anyone suggest any vocalizer/text to speech type products (that you can save as wav's or mp3's) to record their prompts ?
Must be natural sounding. Preferably free!
Its amazing how shy some people are when it comes to recording prompts !some vendors provide a free service on line. You can type in the text and listen to what it sounds like. Then you can download the WAV file to your computer. Usually the number of characters is limited.
You get what you pay for ... but for prototyping it's fine. Practically speaking, there is no substitute for good vocal talent and optimized recordings.
Regards,
Geoff -
Downloaded and installed the text to speech contraption
today. When I click
the Convert to speech button the Speech Setting dialog
displays. I select
the voice, click OK and get an error "Unable to decode and
import the
selected wav/mp3 file."
Is there a setting I missed? Does anyone know where this is
installed to?
RayHi Kristen
I think the whole scheme of installing the voices could use
more work. First you are taken rather generically to the Captivate
product page. You then have to figure out which page to visit in
order to obtain the download. Many seem to miss the long string of
text that needs to be clicked to download. Sounds like you have
made it that far. Good on ya!
If memory serves, once you download, you run an executable.
One would think they are finished at that point. But I believe what
happens is that running the executable you download simply creates
a folder with some files. I believe what you then have to do is to
run *ANOTHER* executable inside the folder created by running the
first executable in order to actually install the voices and make
them available.
So examine the folder and see if there isn't another
executable to run. I think there will be.
Cheers... Rick -
An error message pops up when using text to speech function in trial version
An unable to decode and import the selected wav/mp3 message
pops up when trying to use the text to speech function with the
trial version. It will let me select the voice but will not apply
the changes or convert.
Any suggestions??Hi there
I've noticed more than few posts about this since Captivate 4
was released.
Are you by chance using Windows Vista 64 bit? Seems most that
have reported this issue have been using that version.
Please report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick -
In my project, I have imported some Powerpoint slides and I
am attempting to add a narration feature to them. From my reading,
I gather I have about two options. The first is to use a text to
speech engine to narrate each slide. Some of the questions I have
concerning this are: -
1) How would I be able to turn it off and on as required?
2) How do I substitute a voice of my own choosing to do the
narration instead of Microsoft Sam
The second option involves importing WAV files and converting
them to SWA format . My questions are: -
1) How do I create WAV files in the first place from
Powerpoint files or the existing authoware files I have created? Is
there a program you can recommend to do that?
2)What are dangers in using this approach?
3) How do I turn the narration on and off as required.
I would appreciate your helpI've never integrated text-to-speech so not sure on your
first
questions. From past questions/answers here, I gather it's
not a trivial
thing to do. I'd imagine it wouldn't be difficult to turn
on/off but
perhaps a bit more difficult to choose the voice (though
perhaps not in
light of getting everything else setup). I'd search past
posts in this
forum and the AwareList
http://ls.kuleuven.ac.be/cgi-bin/wa?A0=aware
to look for similar questions.
For the second part, you can record audio with any such tool
you prefer.
A decent free one is Audacity:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
I'm pretty sure PPT has voice recording functionality, but
I've never
done it so not sure how to get the audio files out of PPT for
importing
into Authorware. I also don't know if you can control the
recording
settings in PPT, which could mean very large files, though if
you
convert them to SWA (once you get them out of PPT), that
shouldn't
matter so much.
I always have our audio professionally recorded at 22khz,
16bit, mono,
then either import that directly into Authorware as is or
convert it to
SWA or MP3... You don't have to use SWA.
I wouldn't say there are any dangers I know of...
To turn it on and off, you can just setup a perpetual
interaction that
has a short audio file that will 'cut off' the current audio,
then use
the ActiveIf option in each audio icon to determine whether
to play the
file or not (via whatever setting/variable you set in that
perpetual
on/off interaction).
It's not terribly complicated, though it may sound so!
Erik
Technovators wrote:
> In my project, I have imported some Powerpoint slides
and I am attempting to
> add a narration feature to them. From my reading, I
gather I have about two
> options. The first is to use a text to speech engine to
narrate each slide.
> Some of the questions I have concerning this are: -
> 1) How would I be able to turn it off and on as
required?
> 2) How do I substitute a voice of my own choosing to do
the narration instead
> of Microsoft Sam
>
> The second option involves importing WAV files and
converting them to SWA
> format . My questions are: -
> 1) How do I create WAV files in the first place from
Powerpoint files or the
> existing authoware files I have created? Is there a
program you can recommend
> to do that?
> 2)What are dangers in using this approach?
> 3) How do I turn the narration on and off as required.
>
> I would appreciate your help
>
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - Authorware
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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Text to Speech does not appear to be working in the new version of Pages
I have tried several ways to get the text to speech feature to work with the new version of Pages, but haven't yet had success. I use that feature in editing my articles alot, so I guess I'll stick with Pages 09 for now.
Anyone found a work around?Nope, working as intended.
Pages 5 breaks accesibility completely.
If you're visually-impaired DO NOT UPDATE. -
Using text-to-speech technology in my web app
Hi all,
I work for a small web development company and we're curently in the process
of building a web app for foreign language learners. One of the features
we'd like to have is speech synthesis. We immediately thought about
incorporating the technology developed by Apple into our app, but
I want to make sure we're allowed to do that in the first place.
Basically, here's what we want to do: we have a simple application
where users can learn new vocabulary. Every word saved by a user
can have a few example sentences (also posted by our users).
We could then generate audio files from these sentences using
"say" command (which is built into the Mac OS) and put
them on our website.
If you're familiar with Apple's policy on such uses of their text-to-speech
synthesis, I'd be grateful if you could clarify it for me.
Thanks.
PS: it's my first post here, so if I chose the wrong forum, please let me know where
I should post it.Hi there
I've noticed more than few posts about this since Captivate 4
was released.
Are you by chance using Windows Vista 64 bit? Seems most that
have reported this issue have been using that version.
Please report it to Adobe as a bug.
Click
here to view the WishForm/Bug Reporting Form
Cheers... Rick -
I need to reprogram the delete and enter key to the left side of a external keyboard for the ipad mini. I don't need the caps/lock or ctrl key. Due to a brain injury my daughter can only use her left hand to type. She also uses a text to speech app to verbalize all of her needs since her speech isn't intelligible any longer either. And her vision was significantly affected also, so the keyboard has to be mounted about 6 inches from her face. So to reach across the keyboard with her left hand to the right side delete and enter button is physically difficult and causes typing errors, which cause people to not understand what shes trying to say.
The best keyboard so far is the Zagg folio mini. I just had to make stickers to enlarge the letters on the key buttons.
Does anyone know how I can reprogram these two keys? Or where I can buy a wireless mini keyboard for Ipad made for lefthanders with these two functions on the left side. I have searched for days and days. It's sooooo important to me that she be able to contribute her voice again. Imagine if you got in a car accident and couldn't speak clearly any longer, but understood everything still. Thanks for any help and suggestions you all take the time to share with me. I really appreciate the kindness of strangers to help me help my daughter.
Sami's momSami\'s mom wrote:
I need to reprogram the delete and enter key to the left side of a external keyboard for the ipad mini.
You cannot. -
Can you copy multiple audio (text to speech) files from one slide onto a new slide at once? OR do you have to copy and paste each line of text to speech and insert into new slide?
Hi there
I believe that you end up with a single file that you can use. Once you get that created, it's an audio file in the library. You may then add the audio file to another slide or object by looking in the Library after choosing to add audio.
Cheers... Rick
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