I am a beginner proggramer and I have created a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk.
I would like it to read the printed text. The voice doesn't have to be real-sounding, it just has to read it.Maybe that computerized voice that steven hawking uses?
Thanks for your help
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> ...a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk.
Just "a calculator" then!? ;-)
Windows XP and later versions have text to speech built in (you can even choose the voice under Control Panel->Speech ). There is a Microsoft SDK: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms990097.aspx . Whether the SDK can be used with MinGW without a good deal of work and technical knowledge seems unlikely. Microsoft VC++ 2008 Express Edition is free and presumably will work with this. http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/
Clifford
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2008-02-15
>> "I have created a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk."
A talking program that actually doesn't talk does not seem a great thing :-)
That said, a program that read text and talk what it read seem a great task to a beginner programmer!, so, congratulations and good luck!! :-D
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I am a beginner proggramer and I have created a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk.
I would like it to read the printed text. The voice doesn't have to be real-sounding, it just has to read it.Maybe that computerized voice that steven hawking uses?
Thanks for your help
> ...a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk.
Just "a calculator" then!? ;-)
Windows XP and later versions have text to speech built in (you can even choose the voice under Control Panel->Speech ). There is a Microsoft SDK: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms990097.aspx . Whether the SDK can be used with MinGW without a good deal of work and technical knowledge seems unlikely. Microsoft VC++ 2008 Express Edition is free and presumably will work with this. http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/
Clifford
>> "I have created a "talking" calculator program,but it doesn't actually talk."
A talking program that actually doesn't talk does not seem a great thing :-)
That said, a program that read text and talk what it read seem a great task to a beginner programmer!, so, congratulations and good luck!! :-D