Text To Speech library (desktop only)

[Zenerdiode]

The supplied SpeechLib.cs is not allowing merging with the .exe. Was it provided for a different reason? I apologise I don't know much about the inner workings of the dll's yet.

[agraham]

It is actually the dll that is compiled with an incorrect assembly name. This didn't matter in the days before merging but it does now. I'm afraid I haven't time to revisit this at the moment, and as you need a separate interop library you can't have a single exe solution anyway.

EDIT :- This reason, hurriedly concocted before I rushed off for a dentist appontment is wrong! There are two reasons it won't compile. One is that the scource filename should be SpeechLibDesktop.cs. The other (I think) is that a reference at compile time is needed to Interop.SpeechLib.dll and Basic4ppc doesn't know this.

[rgately]

Hi,
I have added the SpeechLibDesktop object to my test app. It works fine on my Windows XP notebook except that SayAsync behaves the same as SaySync.

What is the possibility of someone adding a few more features to the library, such as:

- get the name of the voice
- stop speaking and/or pause speaking
- resume speaking

Bob

[agraham]

Originally Posted by rgately

except that SayAsync behaves the same as SaySync.

Are you sure? Look at the word counter. For a SaySync voice it only updates when speech ends, for an SayAsync voice it updates in real time during speech.

- get the name of the voice
- stop speaking and/or pause speaking
- resume speaking

I've added these to a new version of the library except for Stop which doesn't seem possible. However I have put in a Skip sentence method which skips forwards or backwards. I guess you could do a forwards skip of a large number to end speech. I have noticed that skip backwards while the last sentence is being spoken seems to end speech rather than skipping back, it works OK on earlier sentences so this may be a "feature" of the speech engine.

The new version is http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/addit...h-library.html

@Everyone please regard this thread closed and post any queries in the new thread.