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This post dedicated to additional interesting feature in Windows Phone 8 – voice recognition and speech synthesizing.
Speech synthesizing
Let’s start from speech synthesizing. The functionality localized in Windows.Phone.Speech.Synthesis namespace. Using classes in this namespace you can create text-to-speech (TTS) scenarios in your application. The functionality enables read some document identified by URI, string of text with SSML markup or plain text. My sample focuses on plain text scenario.