Hi Thomas,<br>If you are using Windows 7 SDK it should use SAPI 5.4 on Windows 7, SAPI 5.3 on Windows Vista, and SAPI 5.1 on Windows xp. Windows 6.1 SDK uses 5.3 or below. Otherwise, it will be linking with the SAPI 5.1 library. Let me know if that seems to not be the case for you.<br>
<br>While, I don't know much about the true extent of SAPI's SSML support, other than the XML TTS tutorial at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717077%28VS.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms717077%28VS.85%29.aspx</a>. Microsoft seems to be claiming that SAPI 5.3 supports SSML in its enitierity. I recommend taking a look at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163663.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163663.aspx</a> and perhaps playing around with the SSML, the audio tag, and SAPI through .NET. Also, <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms719820%28VS.85%29.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms719820%28VS.85%29.aspx</a> shows how with a change of a paramenter to ISpVoice, SAPI would instead play an audio file name. Perhaps, Kalliope could be tweaked if necessary to processes the audio tag itself in a similar fashion to how it strips out SSML from input to Flite.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Ben<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Thomas Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@edalytics.com">thomas@edalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Can anyone tell me why Kalliope uses SAPI 5.1 vs like 5.3? <br><br>It's actually hard for me to tell. The documentation is a little sketchy, but it looks like 5.3 may support ssml while 5.1 only supports a proprietary version. Even for 5.3 though, I can't be confident from the documentation that ssml if fully supported. Anyone know anything about that. <br>
<br>Anyway, all of this investigation was to see if I could throw wav files into the tts. I thought it would be a simple matter of including an <ssml:audio> tag, but that opened a can of worms.<br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">-Thomas<br>
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