Development - C# Application - Text to speech

Create Text to Speech/Converter Sample using C# step by step.

First we open microsoft visual studio program

We do the settings in the first 4 images in order

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We put 1 label and 1 combo box on the form screen

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Click once on the combo box and click on edit items

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In the window that opens, type the following and click OK
NotSet - Male - Female - Neutral

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Then, on the form screen, take 1 text box and make it look like you see the settings

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Now let's put 4 buttons on my form screen

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Then click button 1 and do the settings in the picture

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Do the same for button 2 3 and 4 .
Briefly;
button2 : Text = Resume and Name = btnResume
button3 : Text = Pause and Name = btnPause
button4 : Text = Speak and Name = btnSpeak

Result;

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Click once in the text box and make it look like the image
Name = txtContent

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Go to Form1.cs on the right, right click and choose Rename, and name it frmMain

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Right-click Preferences, select Add references

Down to select system.speech and press ok

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Double-click the form screen to go to the code screen, and do as you see in the image.
Codes;
using System.Speech.Synthesis;
SpeechSynthesizer voice;
voice = new SpeechSynthesizer();

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We go back to the form screen and double-click on the speak button.

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And we write our codes
private void btnSpeak_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{

         }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Message", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
        }
    }

We also do the same for pause, resume and save buttons

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Return to the form screen and click once on the combo box to make the setting in the image.

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Then double-click on the talk button and come to the code screen and make it look like in the picture.
Codes;
private void btnSpeak_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
switch (cboSelectVoice.SelectedIndex)
{
case 0:
voice.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.NotSet);
break;
case 1:
voice.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Male);
break;
case 2:
voice.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Female);
break;
case 3:
voice.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Neutral);
break;
default:
break;
}
voice.SpeakAsync(txtContent.Text);

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Then come and edit btnPause_Click
try
{
voice.Pause();
}

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Then come and edit btnResume_Click
try
{
voice.Resume();
}

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Then come and edit btnSave_Click
private void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
using (SaveFileDialog sfd = new SaveFileDialog())
{
sfd.Filter = "Wav files|*.wav";
sfd.Title = "Save to a wave file";
if (sfd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(sfd.FileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
voice.SetOutputToWaveStream(fs);
voice.Speak(txtContent.Text);
}
}
}

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**And here is the result :) **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJUUN2oChk
I hope this is useful for you so you can improve yourself by working this way

If there is a problem, you can write a comment under this topic.

Project result : https://github.com/ShanksTaicho/C-Text-to-speech

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