How to Design Language Translator, Text-To-Speech (Speech Synthesis) with Microsoft Translator Service

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Now that Google and Bing are operating on paid Translation services, programmers find it difficult to implement their translator programmes.

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The information below describes how to implement Language Translator and Text Text-To-Speech (Speech Synthesis).

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Language Translator and Text-To-Speech C# and VB.NET source code

Technologies          -              C# and VB.NET, Speech, Microsoft Translator Service

Topics                    -              Language Translator, Speech Synthesis, Text to Speech

Platforms               -               Desktop, Web, Phone

Speech Synthesis with Microsoft Translator Service

Let your applications speak any text! This library uses the Microsoft Translator Service to obtain streams of file speaking text in the desired language. At the moment of writing, there are 44 supported languages, including English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.

If you're looking for the .NET Micro Framework of this library, go to http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Text-To-Speech-for-NET-9cea4462. 

Building the Sample

The code you can download from this page contains a Class Library, named TranslatorService.Speech, that provides all you need to add speech synthesis functionalities to your applications. It also includes two sample applications:

Description

The library makes calls to the Microsoft Translator Service using the classic HttpWebRequest .NET object and process the REST response. So, its usage is very simple:

The text is automatically translated in the specified language before speaking. This behavour is controlled by the AutomaticTranslation property, which is set to true by default. If you don't need to translate the text, because

 

you're already passing it in the language you want to use (as in this example), you can speed-up the library setting the AutomaticTranslation property to false. In this way, the specified text is passed as is to the other methods, without performing any translation.

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