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Using Speech Synthesis with Microsoft Office

by David Donovan

Fundaments of integrating speech synthesis with Microsoft Office

What you'll learn

During the course we will build a COM add-in using Visual Studio Tools for Office, which will be hosted in Microsoft Word. The add-in will enable your documents to speak to you. You will also be able to save the speech to a wave file to use as narration in your presentations.

About the author

David Donovan is a pioneer in bridging technologies. His favorite is audio technologies with software applications. He is involved in speech synthesis and tools for authoring presentations. His latest crave is performing music interacting with visualizations, but he also likes travelling and sailing. In his free time, he organizes shows where artist and musicians can showcase their talents. He also is dedicated to preserving his favorite songs by arranging and performing them in a fresh new sty... more

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