Text-To-Speech, TTS, in LabView Windows

[Fox_Mccloud]

Hi!

Is there any vi:s for Text-To-Speech in labview? Found one in the labviewsection here but it was mac - only.

Any advice in this area and I'm more than thankful.

Cheers

//Beckman

[chilly_charly]

You could use Microsoft Agent ActiveX. Have a look here

[Fox_Mccloud]

Hi again.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I just cant get any sound out of that ms-agent thing. The wizard or the geenie appears but I only get them to say what I want in text. Not in sound. I've followed the instructions on the site you gave me.

Is there another way to do TTS in LabView windows which does not require me to install a bunch of things to get working?

Cheers

//Beckman

[TiTou]

That's a funny toy ! I couldn't get any sound either but that would be a nice context help to add (for instance to replace the tip strips) in a LV App.

Is it possible to get other characters  ??

[Bob_Y.]

I have done this in the past, but not in the last 6 or 7 years.  I do know that it uses a sound card and not a PC speaker.  Many lab machines do not have a sound card or if they do have one don't have speakers hooked to it.  And the sound has to be active and not muted.  I assume that is not the case for either of you, but you have to start at the beginning.

I do know that you can customize the character.  I think I once saw one that was just a LabVIEW logo (with no animation of any sort).

It will be a few days until I can dig out an old program that uses this, but I'll see what I can find. 

Hope that this helps,
Bob Young

[chilly_charly]

I discovered the agents sometime ago. I took me a couple of hours to get things running. My favourite is the parrot. It was really funny to have it telling the Crow and Fox story, in french, with an acceptable accent 😄

[rsv]

Hi. 

I am trying to use a TTS in LabView as well.  I installed all of the files from the link above, and ran their LabView code.  The characters appear, and I try to get it to say the text.  The text appears next to the character, but I cannot hear any speech.  All of the other sound effects work (like when the parrot eats a cracker).  I saw above that somebody else had similar problems.  Does anybody know a way to fix this?

Thanks for any help.

[Fox_Mccloud]

Hi RSV!

I got it to work using a .llb I found.

Its really easy to use and there is a example in the .llb as well.

Impossible to get it wrong.

Try it (attached).

Cheers!

//Beckman

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Hi, rsv. The problem that you should point MS Agent which TextToSpeach should be used. Otherwise MS Agent will show the text, but without voice. You can do it by setting property TTSModeID as shown below:

In given example Adult Male #1, American English (TruVoice) used.

For other TTS you mey need to install SAPI 4.0 runtime support (and you will need other IDs, of course).

I have attached new VI (which actually working on my PC) to this post.

Other links which may be helpful:

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.aspx

http://www.promixis.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5561

regards,

Andrey.

[rsv]

Thanks a lot for the fast responses!  That was very helpful, I have everything working now.  Getting the TTS to work in LabView is a huge help for me.

Thanks again!

Rob Vargo