SpeechSynthesizer::VisemeReached Event

.NET Framework (current version)
 

Raised when a viseme is reached.

Namespace:   System.Speech.Synthesis
Assembly:  System.Speech (in System.Speech.dll)

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event EventHandler<VisemeReachedEventArgs^>^ VisemeReached {
	void add(EventHandler<VisemeReachedEventArgs^>^ value);
	void remove(EventHandler<VisemeReachedEventArgs^>^ value);
}

A viseme is the basic position of the mouth and face when pronouncing a phoneme. Visemes are visual representations of phonemes.

System.Speech supports 21 visemes for US English, each of which corresponds to one or more phonemes. VisemeReached events are raised when a new phoneme reached has a different corresponding viseme than the previous phoneme reached. Since some visemes represent more than one phoneme, a VisemeReached event is not generated if the next phoneme reached corresponds to the same viseme as the previous phoneme. For example, for the spoken words “this zone”, a PhonemeReached event is raised for the “s” in “this” and the “z” in “zone”. However, a VisemeReached event is not raised for the “z” in “zone” because it corresponds to the same viseme as the “s” in “this”.

The following is a list of the 21 SAPI phonemes and phoneme groups that correspond to a viseme in US English.

Viseme

Phoneme(s)

0

silence

1

ae, ax, ah

2

aa

3

ao

4

ey, eh, uh

5

er

6

y, iy, ih, ix

7

w, uw

8

ow

9

aw

10

oy

11

ay

12

h

13

r

14

l

15

s, z

16

sh, ch, jh, zh

17

th, dh

18

f, v

19

d, t, n

20

k, g, ng

21

p, b, m

For information about data associated with the VisemeReached event, see VisemeReachedEventArgs.

.NET Framework
Available since 3.0
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