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Loquendo™ TTS
Multilanguage Text-to-speech Synthesizer

6.5

SDK Programmer’s Guide

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Loquendo™ TTS 6.5 SDK Programmer’s Guide

LoquendoTTS 6.5

SDK Programmer’s Guide Version 6.5.5 21 February 2006

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Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 8 1.1 Contents.............................................................................................................. 8 1.2 What is Loquendo TTS? ....................................................................................... 9 1.3 Hardware and Software Requirements................................................................... 9 1.4 Set-up for Windows and Unix/Linux..................................................................... 10 1.5 Versioning.......................................................................................................... 10 1.5.1 What do those digits mean? ......................................................................... 10 1.6 tts APIs vs. SAPI................................................................................................ 10 1.7 The simplest C languageapplication with the tts APIs........................................... 11 1.8 The simplest C++ language application with tts classes ........................................ 13 1.9 Synchronous vs. asynchronous programming model ............................................ 14 1.9.1 Synchronous programming model................................................................. 14 1.9.2 Asynchronousprogramming model ............................................................... 15 1.9.3 Synchronous and asynchronous Loquendo TTS APIs .................................... 16 1.10 Sessions and instances ................................................................................... 16 1.11 The Simplest SAPI 5 Application...................................................................... 17 1.12 The Simplest SAPI 4 Application ...................................................................... 18 2 The Loquendo TTS Package ..................................................................................... 19 2.1 SDK contents ..................................................................................................... 19 2.2 Sample Applications........................................................................................... 20 3 Functions Reference ................................................................................................. 21 3.1 C/C++ APIs reference......................................................................................... 21 3.1.1 Instance, Voice andSession......................................................................... 21 3.1.2 Control ........................................................................................................ 21 3.1.3 Status ......................................................................................................... 22 3.1.4 Configuration ...............................................................................................22 3.1.5 Prosody ...................................................................................................... 22 3.1.6 Lexicon ....................................................................................................... 23 3.1.7 Utilities ........................................................................................................ 23 3.2 C++ Classes/methods...