Instructs the synthesizer to change the voice in the PromptBuilder object and specifies the name of the voice to use.
Namespace:
Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly:
Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)
Syntax
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Public Sub StartVoice ( _ name As String _ ) |
| Visual Basic (Usage) |
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Dim instance As PromptBuilder Dim name As String instance.StartVoice(name) |
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public void StartVoice( string name ) |
Parameters
- name
- Type: System..::..String
The name of the voice to use.
Remarks
Use the GetInstalledVoices()()()() methods and VoiceInfo class to obtain the names and attributes of installed text-to-speech (TTS) voices that you can select.
Examples
To specify a voice, the name parameter must contain the exact and entire contents of the Name property. The following code fragment initializes a PromptBuilder in English and changes the voice to French.
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// Change the voice to French in a PromptBuilder.
PromptBuilder builder = new PromptBuilder(
new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"));
builder.StartVoice(
"Microsoft Server Speech Text to Speech Voice (fr-FR, Hortense)");
builder.AppendText("Nous sommes arrivé");
builder.EndVoice(); | |
See Also
