SpVoice AudioLevel event (SAPI 5.4)

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Microsoft Speech API 5.4

Object: SpVoice (Events)

AudioLevel Event

The AudioLevel event occurs when the text-to-speech (TTS) engine detects an audio level change while speaking a stream for the SpVoice object.

  
    SpVoice.AudioLevel(
     StreamNumber As Long,
     StreamPosition As Variant,
     AudioLevel As Long
)

Parameters

  • StreamNumber
    The stream number which generated the event. When a voice enqueues more than one stream by speaking asynchronously, the stream number is necessary to associate an event with the appropriate stream.
  • StreamPosition
    The character position in the output stream at which the audio level change occurs.
  • AudioLevel
    The new audio level.

Example

The following Visual Basic form code demonstrates the use of the AudioLevel event. To run this code, create a form with the following controls:

  • A command button called Command1
  • A text box called Text1
  • A list box called List1

Paste this code into the Declarations section of the form.

The Form_Load code creates an SpVoice object, adds AudioLevel to its event interests, and places sample text in Text1. The Command1_Click procedure speaks the text in Text1. The Word event code displays each word spoken. The AudioLevel event code converts each new audio level to a string of asterisks, effectively displaying the audio levels in a graph format.

  Option Explicit

Public WithEvents vox As SpeechLib.SpVoice

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    List1.Clear
    vox.Speak Text1.Text, SVSFlagsAsync + SVSFIsXML
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()

    ' SVEAudioLevel not in default EventInterests -- must be added!

    Set vox = New SpVoice
    vox.EventInterests = vox.EventInterests Or SVEAudioLevel
    Text1.Text = "audio levels change often"

End Sub

Private Sub vox_AudioLevel(ByVal StreamNumber As Long, ByVal StreamPosition As Variant, _
                           ByVal AudioLevel As Long)

    List1.AddItem String(AudioLevel, "*")   'AudioLevel value sets length of string

End Sub

Private Sub vox_Word(ByVal StreamNumber As Long, ByVal StreamPosition As Variant, _
                     ByVal CharacterPosition As Long, ByVal Length As Long)

    List1.AddItem Mid(Text1.Text, CharacterPosition + 1, Length)

End Sub