# CocoaSpeechSynthesisExample

## Description

A Cocoa application using the Speech Synthesis API.

It demonstrates how to use the Speech Synthesis API from within a OS X Cocoa application.

Once built, the application provides access to virtually all the features of the Speech Synthesis Framework.

The application code provides examples of the following concepts:

- Word highlighting using the word callback.

- Simple mouth animation using the phoneme callback.

- Saving of generated speech audio data to a file.

- Creation of a voice pop-up menu.

- Starting, stopping, pausing and continuing of the speech generation process.

- Use of speech dictionaries which allow your application to override a synthesizer's default pronunciations of individual words, such as names with unusual spellings.

## Requirements

### Build

OS X 10.10 SDK or later

### Runtime

OS X 10.8 or later

## Revision History

v2.1

Replaced depreciated APIs (Get/SetSpeechInfo => Copy/SetSpeechProperty, NSRunAlertPanel)

Toll-free bridged NSObjects to CFObjectRefs where-ever possible (all ARC safe).

Updated to Modern Objective C syntax (NSDictionary/NSArray literals)

Fast enumeration

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