Note
Please see Azure Cognitive Services for Speech documentation for the latest supported speech solutions.
PromptBuilder.StartVoice Method (VoiceGender)
Instructs the synthesizer to change the voice in the PromptBuilder object and specifies the gender of the voice to use.
Namespace: Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly: Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Sub StartVoice ( _
gender As VoiceGender _
)
'Usage
Dim instance As PromptBuilder
Dim gender As VoiceGender
instance.StartVoice(gender)
public void StartVoice(
VoiceGender gender
)
Parameters
- gender
Type: Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis.VoiceGender
The gender 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.
To stop using the voice specified by StartVoice(VoiceGender) call EndVoice().