Remember Speak & Spell? Spell $#&*$*$#!!

Ah yes Speak & Spell. This was one hot toy years ago - Speech synthesis and button pushing electronical goodness. Now you can take a trip to yesteryear and once again test your spelling skills and your ability to distinguish poorly vocalized utterances! Take a Look and Turn it on.

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Get Installed Speech Voices in WPF

This code snippet shows how to get all installed speech synthesis voices on a computer using Speech API in WPF and C#.

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How about some built-in speech recognition? That’s right, Vista will include a built-in speech recognition engine, and new and improved HP NX6120 Battery speech synthesis. Assuming it works as well as it should, you’ll be able to dictate e-mails or give voice commands for web navigations without buying additional speech recognition software.

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Simple Speech Synthesis (.NET)

When writing software that will be used by the visually impaired or for systems that have only an audio interface, it can be important to synthesise speech. The .NET framework includes standard classes that make this task simple to achieve.

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