VB.NET Tutorial 13 - Text To Speech (Visual Basic 2008/2010)

This video tutorial will teach you how to create a text to speech application in Visual Basic .NET Programming. Text To Speech(TTS) is very useful when you are creating applications with complicated tools. It can also be entertaining.

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[simplecinco]

Hi man !
I'm a real beginner and your videos maybe they sound boring, but for people like me it has answer alot of question.
Thank You Nice work.

[Oliveprints]

I have really been Blessed coming in contact with You, ...U really made visual basic worth it, I have a friend who tutor me but he's aint as good and a better explainer as U are, ...please I really want videos on how tobuild website using vb.net(2012), ..cosI got the 2012 version....Thanks and God bless U dude, ...am Blessed I met U

[ppinja]

Hi from croatia, this tutorial is good, nice work!

[mehonal]

Nice! I am reviewing all your videos again to keep in mind cuz I kinda forgot...

[rhonecubey]

thanks a lot :)

its fun when the words are TAGALOG
hehehe nakakatuwa

[bendesign]

wow this is cool, i couldn't have imagine that programing could be this interesting, thank you, nice job ;)

[thunderwolff]

@808hawk here's the code, click on the textbox or rich textbox and hit the events button (at the top of the properties tab, little lightening bolt.) double-click the "KeyDown" command in the list, then enter this code:

If e.KeyValue = Keys.F1 Then 'change F1 to whatever key you want.'
Button1.PerformClick()
End If

Change the Button1 to whatever your speak button is and there you go!
Mind that this is the code for Visual Basic 2010, not C#, C++, F# or any others.

[aljodewi]

@saadasad i made a timer which was enabled at startup
and as long as the timer was running the voice would continue (really annoying)
so i made this

heres the code of my timer which might help you with your question:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick

Dim SAPI
SAPI = CreateObject("SAPI.spvoice")

SAPI.Speak("Welcome Albert")

Timer1.Enabled = False

End Sub

[ColeSlawSausages]

lol! THIS IS THE BEST LESSON OF ALL! SUBSCRIBED!

[badymojoy]

This is some cool stuff! Thanks Chris!

[Freakboykevin]

your videos are awesome!!! this is really helpful!

[dciencemat]

I'm going to try more text. NICE!

[thunderwolff]

Great tut, but it's missing some things, first off, if you could add a voice selection, that would be great, also a slider to change speed and maybe a button to stop the speech. If you can, it would definitely make it more user friendly.

[dmlyo]

I think I figured it out -Project -> Add (COM) Referrence -> MS Speech Obj Lib
Import SpeechLib
DIM SAPI AS NEW SpVoice
SAPI.speak("text to speek")
no need a create object, and now you can easily see the properties, methods and events.

[francinesuerte]

Thank you so much :D im starting to love vb.net :D

[Dkryption]

wtf? you are the best! all my college teachers were saying we cant put text to speech into a calculator we have to make because it will be too hard... is it heck? thank you! you rule be my teacher :L :L

[momogome]

hi thanks for the awesome tutorial, i would like to ask, do u have any tutorial text to speech that support multiple languages such as Chinese or Japanese
thanks=D

[hawk]

works for me. got a shortcut on my desktop ready to insult passers by LMAO.

[MrJon]

@Kimmen71 yea, I did the inverted commas. Thanks.

[loveowhisper]

yes there is a good way :)
you may use " BackGraoundWorker to do this just when you click on the button1 ^^