QtSpeech, say “Hello World!”

I am glad to announce new small project that got first release – QtSpeech.

This is library providing Qt-like interface to system TTS (text-to-speech) engines to allow your application to say “Hello World!”.

Current API is very simple.

First you need to include . Then if your application just needed to say something synchronously (execution will wait in the point until speech is finished) you can use such code:

#include <QtSpeech>
...
QtSpeech voice;
voice.say("Hello World!");

If you would like to do this in asynchronous way (so your application is not blocked meanwhile) just use tell() call:

QtSpeech * voice = new QtSpeech(this);
voice->tell("Hello asynchronous world!");

If you need to invoke a slot at the end, use:

voice->tell("Hello!", this, SLOT(onSpeechFinished()));

Also you have possibility to get list of voices and choose voice from available in your system:

QtSpeech::VoiceNames vs = QtSpeech::names()

Current implementation support Windows using SAPI and Mac. I have plans to extend API to include more functionality but will try to choose what is common on all platforms.

Link to repository in Gitorius: http://gitorious.org/qt-speech

UPDATE: Unix/Linux got implementation too! Based on Festival, so only English at the moment, but it is a great start to have TTS working in Qt applications too in Linux systems!