Different Windows Phone (45) 8.0 Voice: TTS, speech recognition, voice command

Introduced

Distinctive Windows Phone 8.0 's voice

TTS (Text to Speech)

Speech recognition

Voice Command

Example

1. Demo TTS (Text to Speech) application

Speech/tts.xaml

<phone: PhoneApplicationPage
    x: Class = "Demo.Speech.TTS"
    xmlns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns: x = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns: phone = "clr-namespace: Microsoft.Phone.Controls; assembly = Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns: shell = "clr-namespace: Microsoft.Phone.Shell; assembly = Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns: d = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns: mc = "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    FontFamily = "{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
    FontSize = "{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
    Foreground = "{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
    SupportedOrientations = "Portrait" Orientation = "Portrait"
    mc: Ignorable = "d"
    shell: SystemTray.IsVisible = "True">
       
    <Grid Background = "Transparent">
        <StackPanel Orientation = "Vertical">
       
            <TextBlock Name = "lblMsg" />
                   
            <Button x: Name = "btnTTS_Basic" Content = "TTS Basic" Click = "btnTTS_Basic_Click" />
       
            <Button x: Name = "btnTTS_Select" Content = "TTS" with the specified voice Click = "btnTTS_Select_Click" />
       
            <Button x: Name = "btnTTS_SSML" Content = "Read SSML document" Click = "btnTTS_SSML_Click" />
       
        </ StackPanel>
    </ Grid>
       
</ phone: PhoneApplicationPage>