Mac OS X speech to text API. Howto?

Question

I have a program that receives an audio (mono) stream of bits from TCP/IP. I am wondering whether the speech (speech-recognition) API in Mac OS X would be able to do a speec

Answer 1

You can use either ApplicationServices's SpeechSynthesis (10.0+)

CFStringRef cfstr = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL,"Hello World!", kCFStringEncodingMacRoman);
Str255 pstr;    
CFStringGetPascalString(cfstr, pstr, 255, kCFStringEncodingMacRoman);   
SpeakString(pstr);

or AppKit's NSSpeechSynthesizer (10.3+)

NSSpeechSynthesizer *synth = [[NSSpeechSynthesizer alloc] initWithVoice:@"com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.Alex"];
[synth startSpeakingString:@"Hello world!"];