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Make your Store apps talk

Make your Store apps talk . Sriram Subramanian Senior Program Manager Lead 2-171. Agenda. Text to speech capabilities. Using the API. Design and integration. Evolving user experiences. Evolving user experiences. Evolving user experiences. Evolving user experiences.

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Make your Store apps talk

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  1. Make your Store apps talk Sriram Subramanian Senior Program Manager Lead 2-171

  2. Agenda • Text to speech capabilities. • Using the API. • Design and integration.

  3. Evolving user experiences

  4. Evolving user experiences

  5. Evolving user experiences

  6. Evolving user experiences • Voice first experiences. • Eyes free experiences. • Training apps. • Background notifications.

  7. Introducing text to speech in Windows 8.1

  8. Text to speech demo

  9. Text to speech platform features • Voice synthesis to read out text. • High quality voices with global reach. • Enhancement of the voice with rhythm, stress, and intonation. • Bookmarks and markers for control.

  10. Text to speech (TTS) core API objects SpeechSynthesizer. SpeechSynthesisStream. Voices. SpeechSynthesizer Media Element (<Audio/>) SpeechSynthesisStream Text Voices

  11. Speech synthesis code walkthrough

  12. Fine tuning with SSML

  13. When is tuning required? • Adjust prosody. • Intonation, rhythm, and speaking rate. • Pause at natural points in larger text content. • Flexibility to adjust pronunciations for app scenarios. • Date vs. fraction. • Abbreviations.

  14. Using SSML to tune voice • W3C standard. • Attributes to control pronunciation, pitch, rate, etc. • Process SSML tagged text using SpeechSynthesizer. • SpeechSynthesizer.SynthesizeSsmlToStreamAsync.

  15. Code walkthrough with SSML

  16. Languages and voices

  17. 17 voices 16 locales

  18. Spanish demo

  19. Markers

  20. Markers • Used to reference a specific location in the text sequence. • Enables interactive experiences. • Logical or user-set bookmarks. • Highlight sentences as they are read.

  21. How to use markers • Use SSML <mark> element to define them in the input text. • SpeechSynthesizer generates the audio stream with markers. • Audio element fires an event when marker is reached.

  22. Put the user always in control • Design guidelines for voice experiences • Use System Media playback controls. • Use the AppBar to expose the additional controls. • Use different voices when appropriate.

  23. Final thoughts

  24. Enable voice in your apps • Consider using voice • Use TTS APIs and platform • Reachglobal audience

  25. Resources • TTS API reference: • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.media.speechsynthesis.aspx • Speech synthesis sample: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=306721&clcid=0x409

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