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...