Using VTML commands for NeoSpeech

Well just mainly to turn off the message or to get additional voices. I found dealing with Neospeech frustrating in this regard so I've made do with just editing it using the trial of VT.

On a similar note, I've been talking with Lauren Krainski who works at Paul Allen's nonprofit AI research institute in Seattle. She gave me a demo of a new text to speech technology that knocked my socks off. If you're interested in text to speech that sounds completely real, send her an email to arrange a demo. The project will be beta tested sometime in January but it was amazing.

her email is laurenk@allenai.org

I've been using text to speech since Adobe Captivate 5.0. In all that time I've not felt a need to have a licensed version of Voice Text. I use it as I described and once I'm satisfied with how it sounds I copy and paste the commands from the Voice Text editor into my notes area of Captivate. I looked into purchasing additional voices, specifically James, however, when Adobe made this voice available in the next release of Captivate, I no longer worried about this.

You may wish to look into Amazon Polly as an alternative. Polly provides dozens and dozens of voices and the entire thing is managed in a web app. 

Correct. There is no option to buy the software, it comes with the voices.

You can download the following pdf and it will guide you on the proper syntax for adding the vtml markup

http://media.neospeech.com/document/vt_eng-Engine-VTML-v3.9.0-3.pdf

Make sure you're typing them exactly correct. Any slight deviation on spacing or formatting will make it unusable and Captivate will only read the scripting rather than use it as it should. Have you seen my tutorial on this? It's kind of old now but the steps haven't changed as much. Adobe Captivate - Text to Speech Hints and Tips - YouTube