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Text-to-Speech

The Text-to-Speech notification feature of CA Automation Point delivers spoken messages over your TCP/IP network. If the receiving PC is capable of using the Microsoft Agent technology (available on Microsoft Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista/Server 2008), the text message is spoken by an animated Microsoft Agent character.

If the platform is not capable of running the Microsoft Agent technology (Microsoft Windows 7/Server 2008 R2), a dialog box displays containing the message text, and this message text is sent through the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) for text-to-speech processing.

The following illustration shows how text-to-speech notification works.

Two mechanisms are used to produce the text-to speech capability:

• The Notification Manager Speak method is used to notify a Notification Manager contact point-to-point.
• The ALARMSAY rules keyword uses the CA Automation Point alarm mechanism to send notifications to the local CA Automation Point server and to any Remote Viewer client currently monitoring the session.

The AP Listener icon is in the Status Tray Area of the receiving system. The appearance of the icon represents different states of the notification queue.