Creative TextAssist

• Platform: Windows
• Description: Based on DECtalk speech synthesis. A detailed description of TextAssist is provided on the Creative WWW pages. TextAssist TextReader provides a convenient Windows user interface for text reading.
• Availability: Creative TextAssist is bundled with most (all?) Creative Sound Blaster audio cards. TextAssist preview software is available from the Creative Labs TextAssist home page.
• Contact: Creative Labs, Inc.
  Address, phone, email etc unknown
  WWW: http://www.creaf.com/ : http://www.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/devcnr/tassist.html

Creative TextAssist API

• Platform: Windows
• Description: The TextAssist API (TAAPI) is created for Microsoft Windows 3.1x and Windows 95 developers who intend to develop 16-bit Text-to-Speech software applications using Creative's TextAssist speech engine. It supports direct control of speech output characteristics, concurrent playback of text-to-speech and wave files, foreign language support, speech synchronization, exception dictionaries. It also includes a voice editing tool for creating new custom voices, a Visual Basic Custom Control for high-level support in Visual Basic and other languages
• Availability: The TextAssist API is released to registered developers at no cost.
• Contact: WWW: http://www.creaf.com/
  FAQ: http://www.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/devcnr/tassfaq.html

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