text to speech Archives

2016-01-062017-06-18

How to Use Text to Speech in Qt for Windows

Unfortunately for Cross-Platform developers, there is no standard method or API that you can code once and use to have TTS (Text to Speech) in your programs. You may find some 3rd party libraries that allow a great deal of reusability in different Operating Systems but at some point they also prove to do less than what you require. Qt has promised to make this available for us in the near feature but it has been postponed all the time. The main reason is that there is a huge race between major Software companies (Microsoft, Google and Apple) in this field and it seems that they somehow make it work in totally different ways on purpose. So anyway that is why I decided to share the method to have TTS in Qt in all well known operating systems and I am going to start with the easiest one, which is Windows. Continue reading “How to Use Text to Speech in Qt for Windows”

2015-09-18

EasyWiki (Android application)

You can now download the English version of Seslen program from Google Play. It’s called EasyWiki.
It uses Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition. No typing is needed and it also works with the hands free button.

It can be downloaded from Google Play at the link below:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xmlpark.wikivoice

Enjoy! 🙂

2015-09-13

Seslen (Android Application)

This program allows you to search for an article in Turkish version of Wikipedia using your microphone (Speech Recognition) and listen to the results using Android’s internal Text-To-Speech engine. Simple and useful!

English version will be out soon 🙂

Seslen

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amahta.seslen

2015-04-122017-06-19

Hürriyet Mobil Hackathon Winners

I participated in a hackathon hosted by Hürriyet (http://www.hurriyethackathon.com) along with my friends Erisn and Sinan. It lasted more than 48 hours, full of coding, designing and debugging. We were awarded as the third best project. There were 54 groups from all around Turkey with some really great ideas and projects. Our group was called T2K and our project was named Elizabeth. Below is the video we used for presentation at the finals. It’s also a description of the project. Continue reading “Hürriyet Mobil Hackathon Winners”