Natural Voices with other applications, like Director MX ?

[weez]

I've used the built-in voices that come with Microsoft's TTS engine by scripting inside of Macromedia Director, and well, they're pretty crappy. I was wondering if the Natural Voices engine and voices you can purchase from Nextup work well with other speech-enabled programs in windows. Has anyone tested Natural Voices capabilities in Director, VBscript, or anything else?

Apologies for a rather newb question.

[BJ]

I have a couple of questions somewhat along the same line. Can voices be switched within the reading of a document, such as using Cepstral and AT&T Natural Voices in the same file?

Also, do you carry, or plan to carry the RealSpeak voices from ScanSoft?

Thanks,
B.J.

http://personalpages.tds.net/~yourstruly

[kdwhite]

See
http://nextup.com/beta_tags.html
for details about switching.

Don't know yet about ScanSoft. They are very, very expensive, we'd end up having to sell them for $50 per voice at the pricing ScanSoft has quoted so far, but some other good voices will be coming.

[jnuttallphd]

I find AT&T natural voices work in most applications that allow text-to-speech. Don't know about Macromedia Director. I would assume that if you're able to select voices you'd be able to select AT&T natural voices also.

Jim -- Michigan