text2speech

Converts text to speech.

Description

Any text is spoken.
 
Get started...
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.
text2speech({'Hello. How are you?','It is nice to speak to you.','regards SAPI.'})

Emphasising
text2speech('You can <EMPH> emphasis </EMPH> text.');

Silence
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.');

Other related work:
Just before I put this text2speech into the file exchange, I noticed something
pretty similar, written by Fahad Al Mahmood called speak:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=4769&objectType=file

 
This work is free software;
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This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)
• Other requirements: Microsoft SAPI (Speech SDK 5.1)
• Published M Files: initSpeech, Speak, text2speech, unloadSpeechLibrary
• HTML Files: text2speech/html/index.html
• Other Files: text2speech/wgText2Speech.lib, ; text2speech/wgText2Speech.dll, ; text2speech/unloadSpeechLibrary.m, ; text2speech/text2speech.m, ; text2speech/initSpeech.m, ; text2speech/Speak.m, ; text2speech/Speak.h, ; text2speech/readme.txt

[Nathan Miller]

Works beautifully!

[bharath kumar]

hi when i try to execute this code it says Undefined function or variable loadlibrary
can anyone plz help me

[marian nasry]

thanks for this code very much , but i've one question : how can I control the speed of the speech;
please help me

[Wolfgang Garn]

Speed tag: <rate absspeed="5">, relative speed <rate speed="2"> Values are between -10 and +10.
See XML TTS tutorial (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717077(VS.85).aspx ) for more information.

[M]

I get stuck when loading the speech library.

This program calls MATLAB's loadlibrary function, which in turn calls the function loaddefinedlibrary. At that point, MATLAB hangs. I let it go for a few minutes and then have to force-quit MATLAB from the Task Manager. I don't get an error message, so I am not sure I have the same error as people who do get an error message about not having a module installed.

Any idea how to fix this issue? I guess it is more general than text2speech but am wondering if anyone ran across this error while using the program.