C#•7mo ago

Microsoft SAM TTS library or setup?

I searched everywhere for a way to harness Microsoft SAM text-to-speech, but I couldnt find anything useful. Maybe Im just not searching the right places? anyhow, I wanted to know if anyone knew how to set up these TTS programs for use in a .Net project (as a library or an executable)

jcotton42•5/28/25, 4:28 AM

@icedchai™ are you talking about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.speech.synthesis?view=net-9.0-pp ?

System.Speech.Synthesis Namespace

Contains classes for initializing and configuring a speech synthesis engine, for creating prompts, for generating speech, for responding to events, and for modifying voice characteristics.

Iicedchai™I searched everywhere for a way to harness Microsoft SAM text-to-speech, but I c...

Lex Li•5/28/25, 7:43 AM

If you study more about the modern cloud based text-to-speech services/APIs, you will find much more powerful approaches like Azure Speech SDK, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/speech-sdk

Kiel•5/28/25, 2:38 PM

I have a good feeling the end goal here is to specifically use microsoft SAM for funsies (or whatever the real reason is)

jcotton42•5/28/25, 2:42 PM

I wonder how old Microsoft Sam Reads Funny Windows Errors is.

jcotton42•5/28/25, 2:43 PM

Sixteen years old!

KKiel I have a good feeling the end goal here is to specifically use microsoft SAM for...

icedchai™OP•5/28/25, 10:33 PM

I am wanting to use Microsoft SAM specifically so that I can mass process a batch of words as audio files, yes it is for funsies

icedchai™OP•5/28/25, 10:34 PM

Thank you guys for the resources