Text By Aviv Eyal,
Product Manager
DirectXtras Ltd
Report by SuperAdaptoid
Xpress is the first commercially available, cross-platform Text-To-Speech solution for the Web. It includes 10 voices with pitch, speed and volume control for each voice, and is available as a Shockwave Xtra in 5 languages: English, Spanish, German, French and Italian. Xpress for Javascript currently supports English only.
To use Xpress on the Web, we provide the Xtra, licensed as a free browser Plug-in, for the general public. You can download the plug-in from: http://www.xpressed.com
Xpress for Javascript developers don’t need to have any prior Shockwave programming knowledge. All it takes are several simple Javascript methods.
Xpress for Javascript is fully Netscape 3.0/4.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0/4.0 compatible. No ‘double’ scripting is needed! One script works on all platforms.
To see (and hear) a web page that speaks using Javascript (and some VBscript), please come equipped with the Shockwave for Director 6.0 plug-in (donwloadable from http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave ) to http://www.xpressed.com/sample8.htm
The sample provides links to Xpress for Javascript documentation. You’ll be surprised how easy is it to add speech to your site.
Aviv Eyal,
Product Manager
DirectXtras Ltd
aviveyal@directxtras.com
http://www.directxtras.com