text to speech Archives

7 Mar

2010

Text-To-Speech in Silverlight Using WCF

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: Silverlight, Silverlight, text to speech:12 Comments

Back in February, I wrote a blog post showing you how to, using Silverlight 4 OOB (out of browser) with elevated trust, access system devices; including how to use the SAPI.SpVoice API through the new Silverlight 4 COM Interop feature to implement text to speech. The biggest problem to that approach is that it will […]

20 Feb

2010

Silverlight 4 – Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner.

By: Brian Lagunas Category:UncategorizedTag: .Net 4.0, access scanner/camera, Silverlight, silverlight 4 beta, text to speech:11 Comments

Yesterday I gave a presentation on some new features in Silverlight 4. During this presentation I mentioned the newly available ability to interoperate with Office applications such as Outlook and Excel though the new ComAutomationFactory that is in Silverlight 4. Someone in the audience asked the question, ?Can I access my scanner?, and of course […]