Text To Speech Converter (C#.net)

The following program shows you , text to speech converter in two ways.. old way using SpeechLib; and in new way

using System.Speech.Synthesis; you can also load whole file to read.

public void btnSpeak_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

    textToSpeechNew();

}

public void textToSpeechOld() // Old way using using SpeechLib Library

{

    SpVoice speech = new SpVoice();

    speech.Speak(RichTextBox1.Text, SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync);

    speech.Rate = 5;

    speech.Volume = 50;

}

public void textToSpeechNew() // New way using System.Speech Library

{

    SpeechSynthesizer speech = new SpeechSynthesizer();

    speech.Speak(RichTextBox1.Text);

    speech.Rate = 5;

    speech.Volume = 50;

}

public void btnLoadFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

   if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)

   {

        TextReader tr = File.OpenText(openFileDialog1.FileName);

        RichTextBox1.Text = tr.ReadToEnd();

        textToSpeechNew();

   }

               

}