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Are there any Text-To-Speech engines for the CE platform?

April 26, 2017ce engines Platform text-to-speech

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Are there any Text-To-Speech engines for the CE platform?

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The are a few text to speech (TTS) engines for Windows CE. Check out Lernout and Hauspie’s TTS engine for Windows CE. This is the same speech engine used in the AutoPC. Unfortunately, it is only available for SH3 processors at the current time. See http://www.lhsl.com/ssyn/tts3000wince.asp for more information. You should also check out the Dectalk TTS engine for Win CE. You can find more it at http://www.digital.com/oem/products/dectalk/tdtdemos.htm. Last I checked, the web site calls it a beta, but the demo I saw recently looked pretty good. A new entry to the Windows CE TTS field is from Elan. The Elan TTS toolkit will be released 1-Nov-99 and will be $495US. It will support the MIPS and SH processors, and will cover the following languages: US English, UK English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian and Russian. They will formally announce the product at SpeechTech during the last week of October. Note: $495US covers the developer license. The toolkit also requires distribution roya