Microsoft Speech SDK

Speech Automation 5.1

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SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags Enum

The SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags enumeration lists flags that control the SpVoice.Speak method.

Definition

Enum SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags
    'SpVoice flags
    SVSFDefault = 0
    SVSFlagsAsync = 1
    SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak = 2
    SVSFIsFilename = 4 
    SVSFIsXML = 8
    SVSFIsNotXML = 16
    SVSFPersistXML = 32

    'Normalizer flags
    SVSFNLPSpeakPunc = 64

    'Masks
    SVSFNLPMask = 64
    SVSFVoiceMask = 127
    SVSFUnusedFlags = -128   
End Enum

Elements

SVSFDefault

Specifies that the default settings should be used. The defaults are:

To speak the given text string synchronously (override with SVSFlagsAsync),

Not to purge pending speak requests (override with SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak),

To parse the text as XML only if the first character is a left-angle-bracket (override with SVSFIsXML or SVSFIsNotXML),

Not to persist global XML state changes across speak calls (override with SVSFPersistXML), and

Not to expand punctuation characters into words (override with SVSFNLPSpeakPunc).

SVSFlagsAsync

Specifies that the Speak call should be asynchronous. That is, it will return immediately after the speak request is queued.

SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak

Purges all pending speak requests prior to this speak call.

SVSFIsFilename

The string passed to the Speak method is a file name rather than text. As a result, the string itself is not spoken but rather the file the path that points to is spoken.

SVSFIsXML

The input text will be parsed for XML markup.

SVSFIsNotXML

The input text will not be parsed for XML markup.

SVSFPersistXML

Global state changes in the XML markup will persist across speak calls.

SVSFNLPSpeakPunc

Punctuation characters should be expanded into words (e.g. "This is it." would become "This is it period").

SVSFNLPMask

Flags handled by SAPI (as opposed to the text-to-speech engine) are set in this mask.

SVSFVoiceMask

This mask has every flag bit set.

SVSFUnusedFlags

This mask has every unused bit set.