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Go to 'Options' to select speech engine Continue using your old TTS voices using the TTS plugin Use the 'TTSMS' plugin for Microsoft voices (Free to download. They are not great, but are available in many languages.) Here is a video walkthrough discussing the new features and the installation of MS Speech Platform.
-->Contains information about an installed speech synthesis voice.
Inheritance Hierarchy
System.Object
Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis.InstalledVoice
Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis.InstalledVoice
Namespace:Microsoft.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly: Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)
Assembly: Microsoft.Speech (in Microsoft.Speech.dll)
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Use this class to get information about an installed voice, including its culture (language-country/region), name, gender, age, and whether it is enabled.
A voice is an installed Runtime Language for speech synthesis (TTS, or text-to-speech). The Microsoft Speech Platform Runtime 11 and Microsoft Speech Platform SDK 11 do not include any Runtime Languages for speech synthesis. You must download and install a Runtime Language for each language in which you want to generate synthesized speech. A Runtime Language includes the language model, acoustic model, and other data necessary to provision a speech engine to perform speech synthesis in a particular language. See InstalledVoice for more information.
The Runtime Languages are different for each version of the Speech Platform Runtime. You must download the Runtime Language version that matches the version of the Speech Platform Runtime that you have installed. The Runtime Languages for the Speech Platform SDK 11 are redistributable and are different than the languages that ship with Windows Vista or Windows 7. Use the following link to download Runtime Languages for version 11 of the Speech Platform Runtime:
See Language Support for a list of languages for which you can download Runtime Languages.
Examples
The following example is part of a console application that initializes a SpeechSynthesizer object and outputs to the console a list of the installed voices (runtime languages for speech synthesis) and demonstrates the information that is available for each voice.
Thread Safety
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.