How can I use google text to speech api in windows form?

Question

I want to use google text to speech in my windows form application, it will read a label. I added System.Speech reference. How can it read a label with a button click event?

Answer 1

I know this question is a bit out of date but recently Google published Google Cloud Text To Speech API.

.NET Client version of Google.Cloud.TextToSpeech can be found here: https://github.com/jhabjan/Google.Cloud.TextToSpeech.V1

Here is short example how to use the client:

GoogleCredential credentials =
    GoogleCredential.FromFile(Path.Combine(Program.AppPath, "jhabjan-test-47a56894d458.json"));

TextToSpeechClient client = TextToSpeechClient.Create(credentials);

SynthesizeSpeechResponse response = client.SynthesizeSpeech(
    new SynthesisInput()
    {
        Text = "Google Cloud Text-to-Speech enables developers to synthesize natural-sounding speech with 32 voices"
    },
    new VoiceSelectionParams()
    {
        LanguageCode = "en-US",
        Name = "en-US-Wavenet-C"
    },
    new AudioConfig()
    {
        AudioEncoding = AudioEncoding.Mp3
    }
);

string speechFile = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), "sample.mp3");

File.WriteAllBytes(speechFile, response.AudioContent);