System.Speech on Windows Azure Error

Question

I am trying to call some methods from System.Speech via a WCF Service hosted on Windows Azure. When i try this locally on the development fabric, it is working perfectly fine. I can consume the methods from this Speech API via WCF service in my client.

But when I up this service in real cloud on Azure, i get the following exception error message on the client:

No voice installed on the system or none available with the current security setting.

I have tried to set Copy Local property to True of System.Speech dlls but it is still throwing this exception to me.

Is there any workaround for this?

Answer 1

It looks like Windows Azure does not have actual voice engines installed. Unless it is possible to easily deploy them via the XCopy (which I doubt), then at the moment there is no way to use Speech on Windows Azure.