Willow Pond TTS Readme

Overview
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Welcome. This is the Willow Pond Text-to-Speech demonstration application. This allows you to create any text file and have the Willow Pond Text-to-Speech system speak it. If you want to know all the command set, please read the "Commands" section, located in this readme file.
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The user Interface
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To start the Willow Pond TTS Demo, called "Willow Pond TTS Annotator", you must locate the TTSOLE.exe file. Once you have started the Willow Pond Text-to-Speech application, you can type whatever you want. I've tested this on Windows XP, Vista and 7. As for Windows 8, I am not entirely sure. I also do not know if it will work with 64-bit editions of Windows 7.
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The Menus
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The menu bar is located on top of the Willow Pond TTS edit box, like in many Windows applications. There are five menus in the menu bar. File, Edit, Options, Speak, and Help.
 We'll go over each of the items in each menu.
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The File Menu
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The File menu contains the following menu items.

 New: This allows you to create a new document. The shortcut key for this is CTRL+N.
 Open: Accessed by pressing CTRL+O, this will allow you to open a text file in both a TXT and a WRI file format.
 Save: Accessed by pressing CTRL+S, this will allow you to save your document.
 Save As: This allows you to save your document under a different name or file format.
 Print: This allows you to print your document.
 Print Setup: This allows you to setup a new printer in which you can print a document from.
 Exit: Exit the Willow Pond TTS Demo application.

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The Edit Menu
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The Edit menu contains the following items:

 Undo, allows you to undo the last change to the document. This is useful if you have made a mistake and you don't want to re-write the document from the mistake.
 Cut: The standard Windows cut command.
 Copy, the standard Windows Copy command.
 Paste, the standard Windows Paste Command.
 Delete, the standard Windows Delete Command.
 Select All, the standard Windows Select All function.
 Find and Replace: These two menu items perform the standard Find and replace options.
 Word Wrap: Similar to the option in Notepad, WordPad. and any other word processor in Windows.

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The Options Menu
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The options menu contains the following menu items.

 Embedding: This option allows you to embed different captions in the Text-to-Speech.
 Speech: This option allows you to control different speech parameters. The available voices are:
   MALE: Average adult male.
  FEMALE: Average adult female.
  LARGE MALE: Larger than average male with longer vocal tract and lower voice.
   GIANT MALE: A really huge guy.
   OLD WOMAN: Elderly female with a shaky voice.
   CHILD: Little boy or girl.
   ROBOTOID: Buzzy robotic voice.
   MARTIAN: Strange alien voice.
   MUNCHKIN: Right from Oz.
   COLOSSUS: The voice of the Colossus computer, remember?
   MELLOW FEMALE: Adult female with a mellow breathy voice.
   MELLOW MALEAdult male with a mellow breathy voice.
   CRISP MALE: Adult male with a sharp, crisp quality
   THE FLY: Help me! Help me!
   FAST FRED: Adult male who reads at an accelerated rate.
   TROLL: A Troll.
   NERD: He knows it all.
   MILKTOAST: Kind of like Droopy.
   TIPSY: He's just singin' round the lamppost.
   CHOIR BOY: Male soprano
 The next item in the Speech dialog box controls the pitch in Hertz.
 Rate: This controls the rate in Words per minute (WPM).
 Quality: This controls the quality of the voice, from normal, breathy, to whispery.
 Contour: This controls the tone of the voice, from Normal 1, normal 2, monotone, and sung. The default is Normal 1.
 The next item in the options menu is the Font menu item. It opens up your traditional font dialog that you're already familiar with.
 The next two items are to make the toolbar and status bar appear.

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The Speak Menu
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This menu allows you to play, pause, stop, or rewind the playback of speech.

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The Help Menu
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The help menu is useless because it does not open anything related to the items in this menu.

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Commands
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Here are the commands for the Willow Pond TTS program.
The command itself is seperated from the actual description in this order:
Ex: command = description.

Basic Commands:
F5 = Read
F6 = Stop
F7 = Rewind
F8 = Pause

Text-to-Speech Commands
These commands allow you to control the text-to-speech processing.
{{voice xxx}} = change to any voice. You can also do this in the middle of a sentence.
{{pitch xxx}} = change the pitch to Any value.
{{rate xxx}} = change the speaking rate to any value.
{{voicing xxx}} = change to a different voice quality
{{tone x}} = make the voice sound different.
{{dash xxx}} = make all dashes pause for a value in MS.