Text to Speech in Flex

By James Ward | Published: October 1, 2009

Back in August at the Flex Jam in Orlando one of the projects we worked on was Text to Speech in Flex. We didn’t finish the project at the Jam so I wanted to post the final version here. Check it out:

(source code)

I used the iSpeech.org API to convert the text to speech. It was pretty easy to build this demo but a production version would need to use a proxy so that the username and password can’t be discovered.

Let me know what you think.

UPDATE: Periodically this demo might stop working because I’ve run out of credits at ispeech.org. If it doesn’t work for you please post a comment here and let me know.

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10 Comments

Guillaume Malartre

Posted October 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

This is great! I worked for an organizationthat prototype all its sound with this kind of technology before going in studio.

And this can be useful for Section 508!

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Graham P

Posted October 2, 2009 at 5:15 am | Permalink

Great stuff – I had a play around with FreeTTS a couple of years back and was planning on spending a couple of days recording my own sound library, but unfortunately you need a linux machine and i dont have one handy…. but this certainly re-ignites my interest!

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martin

Posted October 3, 2009 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

works very well indeed. wish they has a male voice for free..free is free so can’t complain. compiled with Flex 4 SDK just fine. nice code J

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Mathieu Vignau

Posted October 4, 2009 at 10:35 am | Permalink

Nice and usefull! I hope iSpeech will update the API to support other languages.
Here is another TTS system but it’s completely AS3 generated, it’s definitely not the same result but it’s really interesting : Synthetic Speech in Flash

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denegrate

Posted October 9, 2009 at 6:51 pm | Permalink

is it possible to do the other way around? speech to text?

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James Ward

Posted October 12, 2009 at 7:26 am | Permalink

Hi denegrate,

I’ve heard of people doing speech recognition in Flex but I’m not sure if there is anything available yet.

-James

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Michael

Posted October 21, 2009 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

James just so you know the ws for http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/media/flexapp/ has changed so that the url is no longer available, at least as far as I can tell.

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Paul

Posted December 15, 2009 at 12:40 pm | Permalink

Looks like Google does it for free! Sometimes I think Google has too much money.

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Michael

Posted December 16, 2009 at 8:35 am | Permalink

Premium entries no longer work…lack of credits.

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Elias

Posted December 28, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Permalink

Hi

Regarding speech recognition in flash, I made an API that uses flash/javascript to enable speech recognition. It is new and buggy :). If it doesn’t work for you please let me know so I can fix it.

http://www.speechle.com/api

I made a quiz test app at http://www.speechle.com that uses the api.

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