SAPI4 CLI

Use Microsoft Sam & friends from the commandline.
Based on https://github.com/TETYYS/SAPI4.

Example

sapi4.exe -v "Adult Female #1, American English (TruVoice)" -s 100 -p 100 -t "Hello!" -o test.wav
Will create a file called test.wav.

Usage

Usage: SAPI4 [options...]
Options:
    -v, --voice            voice                   (Required)
    -s, --speed            speed                   (Required)
    -p, --pitch            pitch                   (Required)
    -t, --text             text                    (Required)
    -o, --output           output file             (Required)
    -h, --help             Shows this page

Build

1. Install Microsoft Speech SDK 4.0 (SAPI4SDK.exe). Can be found in the original SAPI4 repo.
2. Run vcvars32.bat of your installation of Visual Studio. I used Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0. Newer versions should work too.
3. Run build.bat to compile.

Credits

TETYYS for the original SAPI4 repo
Jesse Laning for the argparser