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4 total messages Started by Joe Gabriele Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:32

Author: Joe Gabriele
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:32

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Hi,

I've put together a small application in C# that converts text files into 
speech. It appears to work quite well with one exception. There doesn't seem 
to be a way to stop the speech process once it has begun with the line 
Voice.Speak(SpeakText.Text, SpFlags);. You can Pause() and Resume() but you 
can't stop.

I have found some articles on the web that say one way of doing it is to 
call Voice.Speak again with a null string as the text file and 
SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak as the flag. The problem is that these articles are all 
talking about C++. C# doesn't understand what SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak is.

Would anyone have any ideas or be able to point me to some documentation 
that covers this?

Thanks

Joe Gabriele

Re: TTS with C#

Author: Marc Rohloff TeamB
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:40

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:32:20 -0400, Joe Gabriele wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've put together a small application in C# that converts text files into 
> speech. It appears to work quite well with one exception. There doesn't seem 
> to be a way to stop the speech process once it has begun with the line 
> Voice.Speak(SpeakText.Text, SpFlags);. You can Pause() and Resume() but you 
> can't stop.
> 
> I have found some articles on the web that say one way of doing it is to 
> call Voice.Speak again with a null string as the text file and 
> SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak as the flag. The problem is that these articles are all 
> talking about C++. C# doesn't understand what SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak is.

Its a predefined constant, a quick Google search turns up its value as
2.

-- 
Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: TTS with C#

Author: Marc Rohloff TeamB
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:45

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:40:17 -0400, Marc Rohloff [TeamB] wrote:

> Its a predefined constant, a quick Google search turns up its value as
> 2.

Here's one using C#
http://www.emant.com/676008.page

-- 
Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

Re: TTS with C#

Author: Joe Gabriele
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:53

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Hello Marc,

Thanks for replying. I had already found through Google that it's value was 
2 and tried the following code:

private void StopButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
   string SN = "";
   Voice.Speak(SN,2);
  }

This, however, did not work so I knew I was doing something wrong. With help 
from the URL you provided, the code below now works perfectly.

private void StopButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
   string SN = "";
   Voice.Speak(SN,SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak);
  }

I'm still pretty green using C# as I've been a Pascal/Delphi man since the 
mid 70's. I am, however, learning thanks to the help from people like you.

Regards...

Joe Gabriele

"Marc Rohloff [TeamB]" <"on request"> wrote in message 
news:9lb0olm4235d.dlg@dlg.marcrohloff.com...
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:40:17 -0400, Marc Rohloff [TeamB] wrote:
>
>> Its a predefined constant, a quick Google search turns up its value as
>> 2.
>
> Here's one using C#
> http://www.emant.com/676008.page
>
> -- 
> Marc Rohloff [TeamB]
> marc rohloff -at- myrealbox -dot- com

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