PHP Text-To-Speech Extension Goes Beta

After several weeks of intense research, development, discussion, programming, and testing, the PHP-VOX project is pleased to announce the public release of version 0.6.4-18 of the PHP Text-To-Speech extension.

While the project still only adds a single function, txt2wav(), to the PHP scripting language, the function itself has been expanded. Developers utilizing the txt2wav() function can now pass three parameters (text, output, and duration) to control what text is converted to speech, the name of the waveform file that is to be written, and the duration/speed of the spoken text.

Additionally, an automated installation script was added, allowing users of Apache (and Apache2, for the record) to automatically install and configure PHP-VOX on their Linux server.

The 0.5.x development series also began using file stripping, which reduces the size of the compiled module. This is done automatically through the installer, as well.

As a result of these and other advancements, the PHP-VOX project has evolved from 'alpha' to 'beta' status, and is nearly ready for production usage with limited functionality. In fact, there are already web sites using the PHP-VOX project, and a testing page is expected to be available Wednesday afternoon. This will be linked from the project home page at http://php-vox.sf.net/.

We invite all PHP developers with root access to a Linux machine to support the development of this project by downloading the GZip'ed tarball of PHP-VOX version 0.6.4-18 from SourceForge and installing today. Because of it's modular design, it DOES NOT require the administrator to re-compile PHP or any other facet of the server environment, and is activated and available as soon as Apache is restarted.

Why not be the first web hosting provider in the world to offer a complete PHP-based solution for generating text-to-speech to your customers? Download and install PHP-VOX today!