Cancel speech synthesis in windows phone 8

Question

I add a speech synthesis to my app. It works but the problem is I can\'t cancel the speech...For example, when I navigate to another page, the speech continues... So, I call

Answer 1

Since you want to cancel the async operation you can use the IAsyncAction returned from SpeakTextAsync instead of using await.

private SpeechSynthesizer synth = new SpeechSynthesizer();
private IAsyncAction task;

private void ButtonCancelSpeech(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
{
    try
    { 
        //cancel the async task itself
        task.Cancel();
    }
    catch (TaskCanceledException)
    {

    }
    }

private void BtnSpeech_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    IEnumerable<VoiceInformation> voices = from voice in InstalledVoices.All
                                                     where voice.Language.Substring(0, 2).Equals(LanguageApp.GetLangage2Characters())
                                                     select voice;
    if (voices.ElementAt(0) != null)
    {
        // Set the voice as identified by the query.
        synth.SetVoice(voices.ElementAt(0));

        task = synth.SpeakTextAsync(_place.Description);
    }
}