Text To Speech Plugin for Xamarin and Windows

Simple and elegant way of performing Text To Speech across Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.tvOS, Xamarin.macOS Xamarin.Android, Windows, and Xamarin.Forms projects.

Preview: http://screencast.com/t/voW1P48Ka

Setup

• Available on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugins.TextToSpeech/
• Install into your PCL project and Client projects.

Build status:

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• CI NuGet Feed: http://myget.org/F/xamarin-plugins

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Platform Support

Platform	Version
Xamarin.iOS	iOS 7+
Xamarin.Android	API 10+
Windows 10 UWP	10+
Xamarin.Mac	All
Xamarin tvOS	All

Features

• Speak back text
• Pitch
• Volume
• Speak Rate
• Locale/Language of Speech
• Gather all available languages to speak in

Usage

Simple Text

await CrossTextToSpeech.Current.Speak("Text to speak");

Advanced speech API

/// <summary>
/// Speack back text
/// </summary>
/// <param name="text">Text to speak</param>
/// <param name="crossLocale">Locale of voice</param>
/// <param name="pitch">Pitch of voice (All 0.0 - 2.0f)</param>
/// <param name="speakRate">Speak Rate of voice (All) (0.0 - 2.0f)</param>
/// <param name="volume">Volume of voice (0.0-1.0)</param>
/// <param name="cancelToken">Cancel the current speech</param>
public async Task Speak(string text, CrossLocale crossLocale = null, float? pitch = null, float? speakRate = null, float? volume = null, CancellationToken cancelToken = default(CancellationToken))

CrossLocale I developed the CrossLocale struct mostly to support Android, but is nice because I added a Display Name.

You can query a list of current support CrossLocales on the device:

/// <summary>
/// Get all installed and valide lanaguages
/// </summary>
/// <returns>List of CrossLocales</returns>
public Task<IEnumerable<CrossLocale>> GetInstalledLanguages()

Each local has the Language and Display Name. The Country code is only used in Android. If you pass in null to Speak it will use the default.

Implementation

• iOS: AVSpeechSynthesizer
• Android: Android.Speech.Tts.TextToSpeech
• Windows: SpeechSynthesizer + Ssml support for advanced playback

Windows Phone You must add ID_CAP_SPEECH_RECOGNITION permission

Branches

Main branch is always the current development beta branch. This means that all new work can be done off this branch. For each release of a stable NuGet package a new release branch will be created so any additional hot fixes could be done off of that branch.

License

Under MIT, see LICENSE file.