The NaturalText Text-to-Speech Converter Reference Manual provides information for programmers who want to customize the speech produced by NaturalText. This manual assumes readers are familiar with NaturalText, Natural Microsystems’ text-to-speech software development kit.
Organization
This manual is organized as outlined in the following table:
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Information concerning input text format |
Chapter 2 , Input Format |
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Instructions for using text characters to specify speech characteristics. |
Chapter 3, Text Character Processing |
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Instructions for changing the way text is converted to speech by turning on and off text character processing switches. |
Chapter 4, Changing Text Character Processing Switches |
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Instructions for using control sequences to modify speech, and non-speech sounds. |
Chapter 5, Speech Modification |
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Instructions for using phoneme characters to specify how the text-to-speech converter speaks text.. |
Chapter 6, Phoneme Character Processing |
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Instructions for using case-sensitive single letter phoneme code to specify sounds not associated with alphabetic characters. | |
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A set of tables that show the phonetic alphabet used by the TruVoice text-to-speech converter. | |
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Information for converting Spanish text to speech. |
For more information about related NMS products, refer to the following manuals:
General
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NaturalText Developer’s Reference Manual |
Information concerning the NaturalText text-to-speech programming model, and API library. |
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NaturalText Installation Manual |
Instructions for installing and configuring the NaturalText software, |
CT Access
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CT Access Installation Manual |
Instructions for installing and configuring CT Access |
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CT Access Developer’s Manual |
Descriptions of how to use the API library |
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CT Access Function Reference Manual |
A comprehensive reference of functions |