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Please see Azure Cognitive Services for Speech documentation for the latest supported speech solutions.

PromptBuilder.AppendText Method (String)

Specifies text to append to the PromptBuilder object.

Namespace:  Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly:  Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Sub AppendText ( _
    textToSpeak As String _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As PromptBuilder
Dim textToSpeak As String

instance.AppendText(textToSpeak)
public void AppendText(
    string textToSpeak
)

Parameters

  • textToSpeak
    Type: System.String
    A string containing the text to be spoken.

Examples

The example that follows creates a PromptBuilder object and appends a text string using the AppendText(String) method.

using System;
using Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis;

namespace SampleSynthesis
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

      // Initialize a new instance of the SpeechSynthesizer.
      using (SpeechSynthesizer synth = new SpeechSynthesizer())
      {

        // Configure the audio output. 
        synth.SetOutputToWaveFile(@"C:\test\Song.wav");

        // Create a SoundPlayer instance to play the output audio file.
        System.Media.SoundPlayer m_SoundPlayer =
          new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"C:\test\Song.wav");

        // Create a PromptBuilder object and append a text string.
        PromptBuilder speakText = new PromptBuilder();
        speakText.AppendText("Say the name of the song you want to hear");

        // Speak the prompt and play back the output file.
        synth.Speak(speakText);
        m_SoundPlayer.Play();
      }

      Console.WriteLine();
      Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
      Console.ReadKey();
    }
  }
}

See Also

Reference

PromptBuilder Class

PromptBuilder Members

AppendText Overload

Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis Namespace