InstalledVoice Class

Definition

Namespace:

System.Speech.Synthesis

Assembly:

System.Speech.dll

Package:

System.Speech v9.0.0

Source:

InstalledVoice.cs

Contains information about a speech synthesis voice installed in Windows.

public ref class InstalledVoice

public class InstalledVoice

type InstalledVoice = class

Public Class InstalledVoice

Inheritance

Object

InstalledVoice

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 (engines for speech synthesis) and demonstrates the information that is available for each voice.

using System;  
using System.Speech.Synthesis;  
using System.Speech.AudioFormat;  

namespace SampleSynthesis  
{  
  class Program  
  {  
    static void Main(string[] args)  
    {  

      // Initialize a new instance of the SpeechSynthesizer.  
      using (SpeechSynthesizer synth = new SpeechSynthesizer())  
      {  

        // Output information about all of the installed voices.   
        Console.WriteLine("Installed voices -");  
        foreach (InstalledVoice voice in synth.GetInstalledVoices())  
        {  
          VoiceInfo info = voice.VoiceInfo;  
          string AudioFormats = "";  
          foreach (SpeechAudioFormatInfo fmt in info.SupportedAudioFormats)  
          {  
            AudioFormats += String.Format("{0}\n",  
            fmt.EncodingFormat.ToString());  
          }  

          Console.WriteLine(" Name:          " + info.Name);  
          Console.WriteLine(" Culture:       " + info.Culture);  
          Console.WriteLine(" Age:           " + info.Age);  
          Console.WriteLine(" Gender:        " + info.Gender);  
          Console.WriteLine(" Description:   " + info.Description);  
          Console.WriteLine(" ID:            " + info.Id);  
          Console.WriteLine(" Enabled:       " + voice.Enabled);  
          if (info.SupportedAudioFormats.Count != 0)  
          {  
            Console.WriteLine( " Audio formats: " + AudioFormats);  
          }  
          else  
          {  
            Console.WriteLine(" No supported audio formats found");  
          }  

          string AdditionalInfo = "";  
          foreach (string key in info.AdditionalInfo.Keys)  
          {  
            AdditionalInfo += String.Format("  {0}: {1}\n", key, info.AdditionalInfo[key]);  
          }  

          Console.WriteLine(" Additional Info - " + AdditionalInfo);  
          Console.WriteLine();  
        }  
      }  
      Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");  
      Console.ReadKey();  
    }  
  }  
}  

Remarks

Use this class to get information about an installed voice, including its culture, name, gender, age, and whether it is enabled.

To perform text-to-speech using the language specified in the Culture property, a speech synthesis engine that supports that language-country code must be installed. The speech synthesis engines that shipped with Microsoft Windows 7 work with the following language-country codes:

• en-US. English (United States)

• zh-CN. Chinese (China)

• zh-TW. Chinese (Taiwan)

Two-letter language codes such as "en" are also permitted.

Properties

Enabled	Gets or sets whether a voice can be used to generate speech.
VoiceInfo	Gets information about a voice, such as culture, name, gender, and age.

Methods

Equals(Object)	Determines if a given object is an instance of InstalledVoice and equal to the current instance of InstalledVoice.
GetHashCode()	Provides a hash code for an InstalledVoice object.
GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object)
MemberwiseClone()	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object)
ToString()	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object)