A simple and easy to use one header file to use the Text to Speech functionalities on Windows (for now). I started this class to use the OS text to speech functionalities. For example in a game maybe this can be used to speak the current selected menu text. This code is not the best and it was done for a very simple application as a test, I hope it provides a good starting point for anyone looking to improve it.
Copy tinytext2speech.h to your project
#include "tinytext2speech.h"
//
ttspeech::Speaker speaker;
speaker.speak("Hello world!");A small command line application is provided in VS2019 to test.
I went to an accessibility talk some time ago and I remember someone mentioning a big problem was text to speech on games as the traditional solutions couldn't catch the text, so I decided to see if I could use an OS native functionalities to do so. Maybe this can help someone.
My goal is to add MacOS support too, but I'm not in a hurry so there's no ETA. Linux might be a bit harder, a quick search and I couldn't find any native API that is bundled with the more common distros (needs more research).
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