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    <p>I have developed a project which I would like to release which uses c#, WPF and the System.Speech.Synthesizer object. The issue preventing the release of this project is that whenever SpeakAsync is called it leaves a memory leak that grows to the point of eventual failure. I believe I have cleaned up properly after using this object, but cannot find a cure. I have run the program through Ants Memory Profiler and it reports that WAVEHDR and WaveHeader is growing with each call.</p> <p>I have created a sample project to try to pinpoint the cause, but am still at a loss. Any help would be appreciated.</p> <p>The project uses VS2008 and is a c# WPF project that targets .NET 3.5 and Any CPU. You need to manually add a reference to System.Speech.</p> <p>Here is the Code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Window x:Class="SpeechTest.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300"&gt; &lt;Grid&gt; &lt;StackPanel Orientation="Vertical"&gt; &lt;Button Content="Start Speaking" Click="Start_Click" Margin="10" /&gt; &lt;Button Content="Stop Speaking" Click="Stop_Click" Margin="10" /&gt; &lt;Button Content="Exit" Click="Exit_Click" Margin="10"/&gt; &lt;/StackPanel&gt; &lt;/Grid&gt; </code></pre> <p></p> <pre><code> // Start of code behind using System; using System.Windows; using System.Speech.Synthesis; namespace SpeechTest { public partial class Window1 : Window { // speak setting private bool speakingOn = false; private int curLine = 0; private string [] speakLines = { "I am wondering", "Why whenever Speech is called", "A memory leak occurs", "If you run this long enough", "It will eventually crash", "Any help would be appreciated" }; public Window1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Start_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { speakingOn = true; SpeakLine(); } private void Stop_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { speakingOn = false; } private void Exit_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { App.Current.Shutdown(); } private void SpeakLine() { if (speakingOn) { // Create our speak object SpeechSynthesizer spk = new SpeechSynthesizer(); spk.SpeakCompleted += new EventHandler(spk_Completed); // Speak the line spk.SpeakAsync(speakLines[curLine]); } } public void spk_Completed(object sender, SpeakCompletedEventArgs e) { if (sender is SpeechSynthesizer) { // get access to our Speech object SpeechSynthesizer spk = (SpeechSynthesizer)sender; // Clean up after speaking (thinking the event handler is causing the memory leak) spk.SpeakCompleted -= new EventHandler(spk_Completed); // Dispose the speech object spk.Dispose(); // bump it curLine++; // check validity if (curLine >= speakLines.Length) { // back to the beginning curLine = 0; } // Speak line SpeakLine(); } } } } </code></pre> <p>I run this program on Windows 7 64 bit and it will run and eventually halt when attempting to create a new SpeechSynthesizer object. When run on Windows Vista 64 bit the memory will grow from a starting point of 34k to so far about 400k and growing.</p> <p>Can anyone see anything in the code that might be causing this, or is this an issue with the Speech object itself.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>
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    1. COyou sure it keeps continually going up? memory will continue to go up in .net, until the GC comes through and cleans things up. unless it continually goes up and NEVER comes down, then i wouldn't worry about it.
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    2. COYes, when I run this on Windows 7 it will eventually halt when attempting to create a new SpeechSynthesizer object. After the program halts, going to control panel and attempting to test the Text-To-Speech will result with the same. It will no longer speak until the machine is restarted.
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