Hello world to TTS (2)

In this post, I will show you how to use TTS with the managed Speech API (System.Speech.dll) in C#.  This API is introduced since Windows Vista.

It supports the tranditional SAPI engines and SSML

The steps are as below.

 1. create a console C# application.

 2. add referrence to System.Speech.dll.

 3. input the sample code below:  

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Speech.Synthesis;

namespace SystemSpeech
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Speak(int voiceIdx)
        {
            SpeechSynthesizer syn = new SpeechSynthesizer();
            ReadOnlyCollection<InstalledVoice> voices = syn.GetInstalledVoices();
            if (voiceIdx < 0 || voiceIdx >= voices.Count)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("voice index out of range from [0-{0}]", voices.Count);
                return;
            }

            syn.SelectVoice(voices[voiceIdx].VoiceInfo.Name);
            syn.Speak("Hello world");
        }

        static void ListVoice()
        {
            SpeechSynthesizer syn = new SpeechSynthesizer();
            ReadOnlyCollection<InstalledVoice> voices = syn.GetInstalledVoices();
            foreach (InstalledVoice voice in voices)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(voice.VoiceInfo.Description);
            }           
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // list voice installed on the system
            ListVoice();

            // speak with the second voices. If you have only one voice, change it to Speak(0)
            Speak(1);
        }
    }
}