I am creating a small silverlight widget which pronounces a word and highlights each syllable as it is pronounced. As part of this, I am using the SpeechSynthesizer.PhonemeReached event to determine the start and end times of each phoneme (as a step in figuring out the start and end times of each syllable). The weird thing is that the ...
I have successfully managed to get System.Speech.Synthesis to read English text in arbitrary voices Anna and Sam. My next task is to localize my application to correctly read Spanish text to our Spanish-speaking clientele. However, I don't think I am asking the right questions, b/c I cannot find in documentation, forum, group or techno...
I am making a Smart House Control System right now, and I have a little problem. I was thinking on using Cosmos for a base system, and adding the needed namespace libraries to it, but as the usual System.Speech.Recognition namespace depends too much on Windows Speech API, I have to forget about using it. So my question is, is there any ...
Is it possible to access the speech synthesis feature of the iOS that is used for accessibility? ...
I am developing a speech synthesis VB.NET app with Visual Studio 2010 in Windows 7 x64 that will be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 that uses the Microsoft.Speech.dll. The problem is that when using the Microsoft.Speech dll, no voices are available. If the dll and imports are changed to System.Speech.Synthesis, the installed vo...
Hi, I'm very confused about how to get TTS working in VB 2010 Express. I read several how-tos, each of them showing how to do TTS in a different way (through System.Speech, adding a reference to Microsoft Speech Object Library, using SAPI etc.). Unfortunately none of them works out-of-the box for me, so I need to install additional packa...
If I feed a speech synthesizer (festival, in this case, but it applies to all) the following bit of text: "At the USPGA championship in the US, the BBC reporter went MIA". it reads "At the uspga championship in the us, the BBC reporter went mia". In other words, I guess that because it's a cluster of consonants, it reads "BBC" properl...
I am using System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer to convert text to speech. And due to Microsoft's anemic documentation (see my link, there's no remarks or code examples) I'm having trouble making heads or tails of the difference between two methods: SetOutputToAudioStream and SetOutputToWaveStream. Here's what I have deduced: Se...
Hello, i want to get started with speech recognition and speech synthesis in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3865351/prototype-based-on-speech-recognition somebody told me to use microsoft speech server (sdk and so on) when i have this, how do i programm an application, and with which programming language (development enviroment?)? ...
hello, i'm new to C# and i'm new to Speech.Recognition. i searched very long for tutorials but didn't find that much. (i'm even not quiet sure wheater i included everything correctly) i downloaded: SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b1604d3-4f66-4241-9a21-90a294a5c9a4&displaylang=en Runtime: http://ww...
Hello, i use the microsoft speech engine (platform & sdk) i downloaded: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=47ffd4e5-e682-4228-8058-dd895252a3c3&displaylang=en the de-DE (German-Language) Version. But when i SpeechSynthesizer foo = new SpeechSynthesizer(); foo.Speak("kennzahlen vom jahr 2010")...
My client would like to know how to create a digital voice. What's the best approach to this, such that the voice could perform text-to-speech? To clarify, I meant to ask what APIs exist for accomplishing this? ...
Most of you probably know the text-to-speech synthesizer of google translate, as you can access programmatically here btw: http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=text My impression was it's sometimes using espeak, but in the major languages, the quality is much better than that. Anybody knows what Google is using, or wh...