Version 1.0 Summary: Converts text to speech.

Matlab Releases: V7 R14 SP2 and 2010a Required Products: Microsoft SAPI / .NET Description: Any text is spoken. Get started ... 1. add the text2speech folder to your Matlab path 2. Test your new function: text2speech('This is a test.') Get started, if you use SAPI (before .NET)... 1. Make sure SAPI is installed on your computer a) get the Speech SDK 5.1 (86MB) for free from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5E86EC97-40A7-453F-B0EE -6583171B4530&displaylang=en b) test your default computer voice Start->Control Panel-> Sounds,Speech...->Speech->Text To Speech->Preview Voice 2. add the text2speech folder to your Matlab path 3. Test your new function: text2speech('This is a test.') I would like to thank "Desmond Lang" for his Text-To-Speech tutorial and my wife for letting me play with the computer ;). You can find Desmond's tutorial at: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1904.asp Example: Casual chat. tts('Hi - how are you?'); tts({'Hello. How are you?','It is nice to speak to you.','regards SAPI.'}) Emphasising (only for the SAPI version) text2speech('You can <EMPH> emphasis </EMPH> text.'); Silence (only for the SAPI version) text2speech('There will be silence now <SILENCE MSEC=''500''/> and speech again. '); text2speech('You can <pitch middle=''-10''/> drop the pitch.'); text2speech('But you can make it <pitch middle=''+10''/> jump as well.');