text2speech - tts

Converts text to speech.

Any text is spoken.

Get started ...
1. add the text2speech folder to your Matlab path
2. Test your new function:
tts('This is a test.')

Examples:
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.');

*SAPI: Speech SDK 5.1 from Microsoft

Microsoft's TTS Namespace
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.ttsengine(v=vs.85).aspx

Microsoft's Synthesizer Class
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.speechsynthesizer(v=vs.85).aspx