Text-to-Speech
Starting back with Microsoft Windows Vista, the old Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI) gained a new managed look. The System.Speech namespace allows developers to speech-enable applications. Here are the System.Speech namespaces available to you:
- https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.audioformat.aspx
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.aspx
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.aspx
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.aspx
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.synthesis.ttsengine.aspx
Not only does the TTS technology open the door to a significant portion of the population with literacy difficulties, learning disabilities, reduced vision, and language issues, but also to seniors and the broader online population (both young and old) who are looking for convenient ways to access content:
It is absolutely mind-boggling that 15-20% of the population...
