• Name: Speech Utilities
• Description: Wrapper for SpeechSynthesis and SpeechRecognition.

• URL: No homepage anymore, but separate derived versions of the SpeechSynthesis wrapper (SUSpeaker) exist in the Fire Trac (http://trac.fireim.org/dev/browser/trunk/fire/SpeechUtilities/) and the Adium Trac (http://trac.adiumx.com/browser/trunk/Frameworks/Adium%20Framework)

• Author: Raphael Sebbe.
• Functionality present:
• Speech with different voices, pitch
• Enumeration of available voices
• Speech rate (Adium version)
• Demonstration text for voices (Adium version)
• Delegation for notification of progress
• Built-in high-level grammar support
• Flexible recognition control
• Functionality missing:
• Speech rate (Fire version)
• Phoneme control at a basic level
• Pausing and resuming of speech
• Finding out information about voices
• Low-level speech recognition control

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Also see UKSpeechSynthesizer at http://www.zathras.de/programming/cocoa/UKSpeechSynthesizer.zip/UKSpeechSynthesizer/ and Apples’ NSSpeechSynthesizer