Note
Please see Azure Cognitive Services for Speech documentation for the latest supported speech solutions.
PromptBuilder.AppendBreak Method
Appends a break to the PromptBuilder object.
Namespace: Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly: Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)
Syntax
'Declaration
Public Sub AppendBreak
'Usage
Dim instance As PromptBuilder
instance.AppendBreak()
public void AppendBreak()
Remarks
This method does not specify a duration for the break. The SpeechSynthesizer will determine a duration value based on the linguistic context.
Examples
The following example builds a prompt containing two sentences separated by a break and sends the output to a WAV file for playback.
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\ShowTimes.wav");
// Create a SoundPlayer instance to play the output audio file.
System.Media.SoundPlayer m_SoundPlayer =
new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"C:\test\ShowTimes.wav");
// Build a prompt with two sentences separated by a break.
PromptBuilder builder = new PromptBuilder(
new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"));
builder.AppendText(
"Tonight's movie showings in theater A are at 5:45, 7:15, and 8:45");
builder.AppendBreak();
builder.AppendText(
"Tonight's movie showings in theater B are at 5:15, 7:15, and 9:15");
// Speak the prompt and play back the output file.
synth.Speak(builder);
m_SoundPlayer.Play();
}
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}