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Asked: 2026-05-14T18:21:04+00:00

I’m currently looking at developing a small client that has the ability to read

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I’m currently looking at developing a small client that has the ability to read text to speech in a variety of languages. Mainly targeting English & Japanese.

So my question is, does anyone know of a library that is capable of reading English and Japanese to speech?

My target development language initially, is c#

Thanks for your time.

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    Microsoft Speech API, if you have the right voices (you can buy them, free voices are often of poor quality. Windows ships by default with an English voice).

    You can find some free SAPI voices here.

    You can listen to Loquendo TTS to hear the voices quality.

    TTS is really easy with SAPI (when set, it’s a one liner).

    There’s a .NET port :

    The .NET 3.0 Framework has included a
    managed speech API, System.Speech.
    This allows you to rapidly create
    speech-enabled Windows applications
    for Windows Vista using Visual Studio
    2005. As with all versions of SAPI, this version is dependent on the
    operating system. SAPI 5.3 is only
    available on Windows Vista. As with
    previous versions of SAPI, your
    application can run on earlier
    versions, such as Windows XP’s SAPI
    5.1, however, if your application uses any features specific to SAPI 5.3,
    expect a not-supported error.

    The two main namespaces to become
    familiar with for .NET speech-enabled
    applications are
    System.Speech.Synthesis and
    System.Speech.Recognition

    http://reddevnews.com/articles/2007/02/15/give-applications-a-voice.aspx

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