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.