How to Select the Tone in Text to Speech Conversion in Windows Forms

Today I am going to explain how we can select tone when we are converting text to speech.

In the previous article Converting Text To Speech in Windows Forms I have demonstrated the way we can get audio output to the typed text in windows forms. Now I’ll demonstrate how we can select the tone that reads the given text.

First drag a combo box onto the form. Then add two values into the combo box i.e. Female and Male.

In the code page write a condition in the button click event. Check which of the following values are selected? The condition can be as follows

if (comboBox1.SelectedItem == "Female")

If the condition is satisfied then the female voice is selected.

Here we will write the Speaker hints as follows

reader.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Female);

If the selected combo box item is male then male voice is selected.

reader.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Male);

Now the entire code altogether is

using System.Speech;

using System.Speech.Recognition;

using System.Speech.Synthesis;

namespace NameSpace

{

    public partial class TextToSpeech : Form

    {

        SpeechSynthesizer reader;

        public TextToSpeech()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            if (textBox1.Text != "")

            {

                if (comboBox1.SelectedItem == "Female")

                {

                    reader = new SpeechSynthesizer();

                    reader.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Female);

                    reader.SpeakAsync(textBox1.Text);

                }

                else if (comboBox1.SelectedItem == "Male")

                {

                    reader = new SpeechSynthesizer();

                    reader.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Male);

                    reader.SpeakAsync(textBox1.Text);

                }

            }

        }

    }

}