How to stop the speech syntheziser?

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How do I STOP the System.Speech.Synthesi.Syntheziser? There are build in methods for pausing and resuming,but I don't see how to totally stop the engine. when I use the SpeakAsyncCancel method the state property indicated that the Synthesizer is still speaking.

Do I have to use threads or do I not understand?.

That's pretty unclear, the SpeakAsyncCancel() method requires a Prompt argument. You didn't document what you used. Use SpeakAsynchCancelAll() instead. — Hans Passant, Feb 18 '12 at 21:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 18:14

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I had the same problem and figured it out after some goggling. The Synthesizer is multi-threaded, therefore they must only be ONE instance in the program, so make a static one somewhere with a static constructor.

answered Oct 10 '12 at 18:14

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '14 at 15:07

Using SpeakAsyncCancel you need to pass a prompt parameter, for example:

Synthesizer.SpeakAsyncCancel(new Prompt("cancelling now"));

You can use SpeakAsyncCancelAll() as well, and finally dispose:

Synthesizer.SpeakAsyncCancelAll();
Synthesizer.Dispose();

How to stop the speech syntheziser?

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