Post date: Mar 6, 2010 6:01:25 PM
NeoSpeech TTS Web Services is a hosted Text-To-Speech (TTS) solution that allows web developers to build speech-enabled websites and applications. According to GizMag, physicist Stephen Hawking uses NeoSpeech. NeoSpeech offers free text to speech account to web application developers. The free account has a limit on the number of words you can read per conversion (500) and per month (100,000). You can buy more capacity. To use NeoSpeech, you need to set up a free or paid account. Create or adapt a web application to offer your users a high quality, reliable text to speech service. The command to use the service directly for testing purposes in the Read Text Extension is:
https://tts.neospeech.com/rest_1_1.php?method=ConvertSimple&email=jdoe@email.com&accountId=1234567890&loginKey=MyLoginKey&loginPassword=1234567890abcdef1234&voice=TTS_PAUL_DB%20&outputFormat=FORMAT_WAV&sampleRate=16&text=(OOO_WEBTEXT)
Substitute your own log in, key, password and other parameters. Find out more about the NeoSpeech on-line text-to-speech services API in the Programmer's Guide (PDF).