Text to speech and accompanying metadata
<p>I want to convert text to speech and be supplied with the accompanying meta data as to what interval each word occurs at and its period. So "The dog ate" might be</p>

<p>The: start 0, end .3s
Dog: start .5s, end .8s
Ate: start .11s, end .14s</p>

<p>Is there way of convert text to speech and has obtaining such data other than going through the resulting audio file looking for pauses. 
Cheers</p>