Introduction to Speech Synthesis Programming Guide
Describes speech synthesis in OS X and explains how your application can produce customized spoken output.
Organization of This Document
Speech Synthesis Programming Guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:
Speech Synthesis in OS X provides an overview of the speech generation process and its components, and describes ways you can use and customize spoken output in your application.
Designing and Implementing an Application That Speaks describes some design strategies and guidelines for providing spoken output in your application. It also outlines the speech synthesis APIs available in Cocoa, Carbon, and AppleScript, and provides some sample code.
Techniques for Customizing Synthesized Speech details several methods for customizing your application’s spoken output, and describes a handful of ways to improve synthesized speech.
Syntax of Embedded Speech Commands describes the formal syntax of embedded speech commands.
Phonemes lists the North American English phoneme symbols the MacinTalk synthesizer recognizes.
Glossary contains definitions of speech-related terms used in this document. Every term you see displayed in bold font, such as speech synthesizer , appears in the Glossary.
Revision History lists the changes made to this document.
See Also
In addition to this document, the Reference Library > User Experience > Speech Technologies contains several other resources to help you take advantage of synthesized speech in your application.
Speech Synthesis Manager Reference describes the Carbon speech synthesis API.
NSSpeechSynthesizer Class Reference describes the Cocoa speech synthesis API.
Speech Programming Topics briefly describes some of the tasks you can accomplish using the Cocoa speech synthesis API.
CocoaSpeechSynthesisExample is a sample Cocoa application that uses the Carbon speech synthesis API.
The speech developers mailing list ( speech-dev ) is an excellent place to discuss issues related to speech synthesis and recognition.
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