Speech Recognition Console Application .NET

 

Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech conversion using .NET

With System.Speech reference we can work on Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech conversion in .NET. So first step while working on this simple application is to add reference to this namespace as follows

Note: For recognizing voice, i.e. Speech-to-Text  add System.Speech.Recognition Namespace and for Speak functionality i.e. Text-to-Speech add System.Speech.Synthesis Namespace

Let’s first work on Speech recognition be creating a simple console application.

Here we have to add System.Speech.Recognition namespace in our console application.

After that write following code in main()-

using (SpeechRecognitionEngine rec = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(new CultureInfo("en-US")))

{

rec.LoadGrammar(new DictationGrammar());

rec.SpeechRecognized += rec_SpeechRecognized;

rec.SetInputToDefaultAudioDevice();

rec.RecognizeAsync(RecognizeMode.Multiple);

while (true)

{

    Console.ReadLine();

}

}

Event Handling

static void rec_SpeechRecognized(object sender, SpeechRecognizedEventArgs e)

{

Console.WriteLine(e.Result.Text);

}

For additional information please visit link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.speech.recognition.speechrecognitionengine(v=vs.110).aspx

Similarly create another console application for Text-to-Speech functionality and here we have to add System.Speech.Synthesis namespace. After that add following code in Main()

SpeechSynthesizer syn = new SpeechSynthesizer();

syn.Speak("this is test speaking application");

if (syn != null)

{

syn.Dispose();

}

Console.ReadLine();

We can work on several variation in these both the application to understand more in details about System.Speech reference.