SAPI Phoneme alignment C++ Code

Lately, a few software tools have been released which use the Microsoft Speech API 5.1 to do the job of phoneme alignment for automatic lipsync.

For competitive analysis, we needed to figure out exactly how Annosoft products compared to an implementation based on Microsoft Speech API 5.1.

More information on our analysis and findings.

We developed a C++ win32 console application that uses SAPI to generate phoneme alignments so that we could run experimentation. We made the output compatible with The Lipsync Tool so that results could be easily viewed.

After finishing this work, we had a well documented code base with nothing to do. We felt that it might be of help to the game community to release this software and source code, and might also generate some visibility for Annosoft's products. We think our offerings compare very favorably in every aspect except price: Reliability, quality, and convenience.

We don't have time to support the software, or SAPI related issues. We are going to try to move this to sourceforge to allow others to get directly involved. (any takers?)

Further documentation and download information here:

http://www.annosoft.com/sapi_lipsync/docs/