I'm rather curious about sound effects in windows form, instead of showing messagebox alone, is voice prompt exist in visual studio 2008 -- maybe using an mp3 or wav file?
AngelicOne
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Jump to PostCheck out the SpVoice object in the Speech API.
You could create a new message box class inheriting from the old one and adding a voice prompt to the Show() method using SpVoice.Speak().
Jump to PostTry SpVoice.GetVoices to see what voices are available and then set one of them to the
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Geekitygeek
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Check out the SpVoice object in the Speech API.
You could create a new message box class inheriting from the old one and adding a voice prompt to the Show() method using SpVoice.Speak().
AngelicOne
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I tried it but the voice sounds weird.. How to change the voice?
Geekitygeek
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Try SpVoice.GetVoices to see what voices are available and then set one of them to the SpVoice.Voice property. Its all there in the msdn pages :)
AngelicOne
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Do I really need to populate it in a combo box? I just want to change voice.
Geekitygeek
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Im sorry, what combobox do you refer to?
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