Text to Speech

Using the powerful audio encoding capabilities of the MercuryXMS™ Mobile Video & Audio SDK™, you can also create text to speech applications, enabling your applications to send notifications, emails, market data, news and other information to your users handsets as voice attachments. You can deliver information in a voice attachment in an MMS message quickly and easy.

Deliver text based services directly to a mobile phone using the MercuryXMS™ MMS SDK™. Users no longer need to scroll through page after page of text with their keypad - they can simply have the message read out to them over the phone. Customer names, product details, emails, news, payment notifications and receipts, and much more.

Embed these voice messages in a SMIL enhanced MMS message and you can personalize the information you send to your customers quickly, easily and with an infinite number of creative possibilities.

For those looking to provide higher levels of text to speech, you can choose the Speechify option which will provide you with the Scansoft Speechify engine for unmatched voice quality. With 11 voices in 8 languages, you simply won't believe the quality of text to speech possible with Speechify. US/UK/Australian English, German, French, Japanese and Spanish are currently available, with more voices on the way.

Click here to listen to an example audio file created by Speechify using the Australian voice known as 'Karen'. This source file is approximately 132kb.

Click here to listen to the AMR version after conversion through the MercuryXMS™ Mobile Video & Audio SDK™ engine. The resulting file is only 24kb. (NOTE: You will need an AMR capable audio player such as Quicktime to hear this message).

Here is some sample code in Visual Basic used to generate this message (sample code in C++ and .NET is available upon request):

Dim objSimpleMessage As New MMSSimpleMessage
Dim objTTS As New MMSENGINELib.MMSTextToSpeechMediaElement
Dim objImage As MMSImageMediaElement
Dim nHeight As Long

'Create a new Text To Speech element
Set objTTS = objSimpleMessage.MediaElements.AddTextToSpeech

'Create a voice message
objTTS.TextToSpeech = "Hello... and welcome to the Active XMS
   Mobile Messaging SDK™ from busineSMS.com Software. You are
   listening to the Speechify Text To Speech engine. Together
   with the MMS SDK™, you can deliver these audio files,
   directly to your multimedia enabled mobile phone."

'Specify the rate (speed) of speech
objTTS.Rate = 10

'Populate a message object
objSimpleMessage.Subject = "Introduction"
objSimpleMessage.MessageClass = mc_Informational
objSimpleMessage.Recipients.Add "", rt_To, addr_MSISDN
objSimpleMessage.Sender = "busineSMS.com Software"

'Send via your mobile phone
Dim objMM1Client As New MMSMM1Client
objMM1Client.Send objSimpleMessage
 

This example demonstrates how easy it is to deliver voice messages that are dynamically created in real time, encoded into an MMS message and delivered directly to your mobile phone. Start mobile enabling your applications quickly and easily today!