Use any of the methods on the SpeechSynthesizer class whose name begins with "SetOutputTo". When you set the output to WAV file, you will typically want to create an instance of SoundPlayer to play back the speech output. The following shows an example of setting the output to a WAV ...
Reporting speech in English would be easy if these rules were all learners needed to know. But as usual, there is more to learn. Let's look at what happens with questions and modals. Reporting on questions When we report questions, we have ...
The main reason behind our focus on K. Mitsotakis public addresses is that these public discourse instances have (re)gained their importance at an international level, due to the condition of the pandemic, bringing forth the role of media events in the political communication procedure (Garland an...
6. LETTER:Write a letter to an expert on human speech. Ask him/her three questions about it. Give him/her three of your opinions on the importance of speech. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions. A Few Additional Activitie...
Below are topics that can be used to persuade your audience on a variety of business topics. A tongue in cheek topic that can be used is “Hiring a lazy person isn’t always a bad thing”, this could be used to persuade an audience that often lazy people find the quickest solution to...
4 Current Events Informative Speech Topics America’s fastest growing cities. The Occupy Wall Street movement. Poverty in New York City. What is the national happiness rate? 6 Economy Informative Speech Topics The history of taxes on carbon dioxide emissions. What would be the impact on economic...
Receives an array of TextFragment instances and creates a new array of TextFragment instances to be passed to the Speak method on an underlying synthesis engine. If the TtsEngineAction enumeration value by found from the Action property on the FragmentState returned by the State property of each...
All programming languages, Speech Synthesis: Added duration property in word boundary events. Added support for punctuation boundary and sentence boundary Objective-C/Swift/Java: Added word-level results on the Pronunciation Assessment result object (similar to C#). The application no longer needs to ...
AUDIO VOLUME EVENTS Low-level events for track the volume of the current audio sample: eventdescription muteaudio volume is almost zero, the mic is off silenceaudio volume is pretty low, the mic is on but there is not speech signalaudio volume is high, so probably user is speaking ...
variations. However, it’s not always easy to mark-up prosody or even to define boundaries between prosody events, i.e., duration boundaries can vary depending on segmentation, pitch contour prediction is error-prone, and prosody features may not always correlate well with what listeners perceive...