Text to Speech

[mdog]

So I'd really like to be able to do Text to Speech on a Windows machine.

I found an article on Winmag that talks about implementing a TTS (Text to Speech) engine and then making calls to the engine via perl. All I get it to do is make a popping noise.

Plus, I found Bruce Winter's explanation of TTS for misterhouse -- it pretty much matches up with the Winmag example.

I, also, found Kevin Lenzo's article from The Perl Journal on text to speech but the complete code isn't anywhere that I can find.

The best I can do so far is take a commercial product that takes command line text and use perl to exec the commercial product with text that I format in Perl. This is obviously super-weak.

Does anyone have any experience with TTS on Windows machines and could someone please post an example?

Thanks in advance,
Matt