Speech Synthesis Manager

Introduction

The Speech Synthesis Manager, formerly called the Speech Manager, is the part of the Mac OS that provides a standardized method for Macintosh applications to generate synthesized speech. For example, you may want your application to incorporate the capability to speak its dialog box messages to the user. A word-processing application might use the Speech Manager to implement a command that speaks a selected section of a document to the user. Because sound samples can take up large amounts of room on disk, using text in place of sampled sound is extremely efficient, and so a multimedia application might use the Speech Manager to provide a narration of a QuickTime movie instead of including sampled-sound data on a movie track.