The speech synthesis  message proposed has been compared to the current SAPI and JSAPI standards.  We summarize the compatibility between the proposed message set and the SAPI and JSAPI standards.  A '*' indicates that an existing standard supports the parameter.

• Message Set
• Messages Issued

Message Set

• reinitialize
• Configure
• Get_Word_Pronunciation
• GetVoice
• Pause
• Resume
• Pronunciation
• Remove_Word
• Set_Voice
• Speak

reinitialize:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*	*	:audio_destination_type	JSAPI supports output only to audio device on host computer.
	*	*	audio_destination_param	JSAPI supports output only to audio device on host computer.
	*	*	:average_speaking_speed
	*	*	:phoneme_translation_file	Requires JSML, not supported in this release.
	*	*	:pitch
	*		:real_time_setting	JSAPI does not support real time setting for speech synthesis.
	*	*	:volume

Configure:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*		:current_byte	JSAPI does not support this field.
	*	*	:marker
	*	*	:notify_attribute_changes
	*	*	:notify_status
	*	*	:notify_word_position

Get_Voice:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:		*	:default_voice
		*	:voice_tags
		*	:voice_names

Get_Word_Pronunciation:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*	*	:word
OUT:	*	*	:phone_sequence

Pause:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
	*	*

Resume:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Comments
	*	*

Pronunciation:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*	*	:words
	*	*	:phones

Remove_Word:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*	*	:word

Set_Voice:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:		*	:voice_default_name
		*	:voice_tags
		*	:voice_names

Speak:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
IN:	*	*	:text

Messages Issued
 
 

The synthesizer issues the following messages to the Hub:.

• Attribute_Changed
• Current_Byte
• Marker_Reached
• Synthesis_Event
• Word_Position

Attribute_Changed:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:	*	*	:attribute_name
	*	*	:attribute_value_new
	*	*	:attribute_value_old

Current_Byte:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:	*		:current_byte	JSAPI does not support this message.

Marker_Reached:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:	*	*	:marker

Synthesis_Event:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:	*	*	:event_name

Word_Position:

	SAPI	JSAPI	Parameter	Comments
OUT:	*	*	:position