Text to speech conversion in c#

This article provides some information about how to perform text to speech (TTS) conversion using c#.

1) Open Visual Studio and create a new Windows Forms application.

2) Now add a textbox and a button to the form.

3) Go to Project -> Add Reference

4) Click on Assemblies and search System.speech. From the result, select System.speech and click OK.

5) Add the following namespace.

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

6) In the Click event handler (double clock on the button to create) of the button, write the following code.

SpeechSynthesizer speak = new SpeechSynthesizer(); speak.SpeakAsync(textBox1.Text);

7) Your code will be:

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.ComponentModel; 
using System.Data; 
using System.Drawing; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Threading.Tasks; 
using System.Windows.Forms; 
using System.Speech; 
using System.Speech.Synthesis;  

namespace TextToSpeech {  
	public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
    	public Form1()
        {
        	InitializeComponent();
        }
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        { 
        	SpeechSynthesizer speak = new SpeechSynthesizer();
            speak.SpeakAsync(textBox1.Text);
        }
    }
}

This is how you can make simple text to speech conversion using c#.