Do you need high-quality text-to-speech voices on your Windows computer? Or are you dissatisfied with your current TTS voices? The free VoicesInstaller takes a new approach to correcting sound problems and offers 28 new high-quality Microsoft voices for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10-including a variety of English, French and Spanish voices.
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I am using windows 10 and want to get more voices for Microsoft at the moment I only have two options: microsoft Hazel and microsoft Zira. Does anyone know how I can get more options?
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If you are not happy with the default Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David TTS voices available in Windows 10, then you can get third party TTS voices for free or buy them online. Using the third party TTS voices in Windows 10 is a breeze if you know what type of voice packs you have installed. Open Source Text-to-Speech languages. Free Text-to-Speech languages are available for download from Open Source provider eSpeak. These languages work on Windows 7, but some may not yet work on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10. View a list of available eSpeak languages and codes for more information. Download eSpeak languages. Aug 06, 2019 How to set up speech-to-text in Windows 10 Type completely hands-free in Windows 10 with speech-to-text support By Tyler Lacoma August 6, 2019 3:00AM PST. The online text-to-speech reader. Free for unlimited use. Reads out loud texts, web pages, pdfs & ebooks with natural sounding speech synthesizers. Apr 17, 2018 Text-to-Speech (TTS) capabilities for a computer refers to the ability to play back text in a spoken voice. This article describes how to configure and use text-to-speech in Windows XP and in Windows Vista. TTS is the ability of the operating system to play back printed text as spoken words.
You can download some more voices from many free TTS voices (which may not be so good). One of the sources for downloading free Microsoft and LTS TTS voices is Zero2000. You can also purchase very high quality TTS voices for Windows from companies like Ivona, Cepstral or CereProc.
Narrator for Windows (all versions) has a few built-in options for male and female voices.
To set Narrator voice options (Microsoft)
Here is a good source for more voices:
Best Free Windows Narrator Voices You Can Use (Zero2000.com)
Excerpt:
In the world of today, more and more people use the text to speech computer technology to free their eyes and save time. As a vital component of the text to speech technology, voices, i.e. speech engines, are the core of text to speech software. Because text to speech software need to invoke voices to synthetic speech and output spoken audio.
There are many voices available on the Internet today, such as AT&T Natural Voices, Cepstral voices, IVONA voices, CereProc voices, NeoSpeech voices, etc. But most of these voices are commercial and the prices are even higher than the prices of normal text-to-speech software. For example, the prices of AT&T Natural Voices are $35 (base required) plus $35 per additional voice, and the prices of Cepstral voices are &29.99 per voice.
Fortunately, there are also enough high-quality free voices we can use. Most of them are compatible with the Microsoft SAPI 4 or SAPI 5. Generally, the higher SAPI version, the better quality.
Here is the free voices list sorted by the recommended degree.
Microsoft Mike, Mary and Sam -
Microsoft Sam is the default English male voice shipped with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Though not the default, Microsoft Sam is also available in Windows Vista Home Premium. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system.
Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively with better quality, available for download from the Microsoft website or other third party text-to-speech related websites.
The most noticeable feature of these three voices is there are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of them. SAPI 5 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems. As an exception, the SAPI 5 versions of these voices cannot be installed on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The SAPI 4 versions are more compatible. They can be installed and used on Windows 98 and all the later Windows operating systems.
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Microsoft Anna -
Microsoft Anna is the default English voice shipped with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft Anna is a SAPI 5-only voice and is designed to sound more natural than the previous system default voice Microsoft Sam.
This excellent female voice is base on the new Microsoft SAPI 5.3/5.4. So you cannot use it on Windows XP directly and also there is no standalone installer of this voice on the Microsoft website. The only way to use this fantastic voice on Windows XP is by the Microsoft Streets & Trips. The Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 and later versions install the voice and the new Microsoft SAPI onto Windows XP computers for the voice-prompt direction feature.
Some third party text-to-speech related websites supply smaller repacked Microsoft Anna installers for Windows XP users. However, it's incomplete and not working correctly on Windows XP because the SAPI version of Windows XP is 5.1.
Lernout & Hauspie Voices -
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company. This company released dozens of high-quality SAPI 4 voices across multiple languages, including ten American English voices and two British English voices.
In addition, Lernout & Hauspie Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from Lernout & Hauspie, and available through Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Reader.
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Most of the above voices can be found on the Microsoft's website or downloaded directly from the 2nd Speech Center web site. Click here to download them immediately.
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by Martin Brinkmann on August 11, 2018 in Windows - 12 comments
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system comes with a set of voices for each language installed on the device. Only some of the installed voices become available system-wide so that third-party software and services may make use of them as well. The majority of voices are restricted to internal use, e.g. for Cortana or other areas.
If you open Settings > Ease of Access > Narrator and select the voice menu there, you get a listing of voices that are available.
When you open a third-party program that uses voices on the Windows PC, only some of these are provided.
The screenshot above shows how many voices are available when you select the voice picker in Narrator.
The third-party program Balabolka displays only three voices that you may select even though you know that more are available on the device: frustrating.
There is a way, however, to unlock all Windows 10 text-to-speech voices so that they become available to any program or app that uses the voices that Windows provides.
Note: The method requires Registry editing. I suggest you create a backup of the Registry or even your system before you make any modifications to the Windows Registry so that you can restore the initial state if things don't go as planned.
Here is how that is done:
Step 1: Open the Windows Registry Editor
Activate the Start menu of the operating system.
Type regedit.exe to launch the Registry Editor.
Confirm the UAC security prompt that is displayed.
Step 2: Open the list of available voices
Go to the Registry key ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
It lists all the voices that are available (except for Cortana voices, more about that later).
Step 3: Export the voices
You need to export the voice information in the Registry in the first step.
Right-click on a key in the Registry Editor, e.g. MSTTS_V110_enUS_MarkM and select Export.
Type a name for the new Registry file, e.g. markm, and select save from the dialog.
4. Modify the exported Registry file
Open the saved Registry file. It needs to be modified so that its values are added to two other locations in the Registry.
Copy all information except for the first line (Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00) and paste the information below the content of the file.
Replace the location in the first data set with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokens
Replace the location in the second data set with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftSPEECHVoicesTokens
Note: Each set includes two paths that you need to replace. Take a look at the following modified Registry file to better understand the process (for the U.S. voice Mark):
Original File:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_MarkM] @='Microsoft Mark - English (United States)' '409'='Microsoft Mark - English (United States)' 'CLSID'='{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}' 'LangDataPath'=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53, 00,70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00, 65,00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53, 00,5c,00,65,00,6e,00,2d,00,55,00,53,00,5c,00,4d,00,53,00,54,00,54,00,53,00, 4c,00,6f,00,63,00,65,00,6e,00,55,00,53,00,2e,00,64,00,61,00,74,00,00,00 'VoicePath'=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00, 70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,65, 00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,00, 5c,00,65,00,6e,00,2d,00,55,00,53,00,5c,00,4d,00,31,00,30,00,33,00,33,00,4d, 00,61,00,72,00,6b,00,00,00
Importing is straightforward. Just double-click on the Registry file that you have modified and accept the warning prompt.
Note that you need to switch users, sign off and on again, or restart the PC before you may see the new voice in other programs.
Also, you need administrative rights to add data to the Registry using .reg files.
Bonus Step: Cortana
Cortana's exclusive voices are referenced in another location in the Registry.
Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppContainerStoragemicrosoft.windows.cortana_cw5n1h2txyewySOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreIsolated in the Registry Editor.
You find a number of random character values there. Follow one of them to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
On my test system, I went to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppContainerStoragemicrosoft.windows.cortana_cw5n1h2txyewySOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreIsolatedohDO1Sgy3MzgdEgEb4WYfDS4eikKwN2EBJ1Cyr7HTF0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
Note that the actual voices need to have LangUpdateDataDirectory listed when you select the folder.
Export the data just like you have before.
Copy the data of the Registry file so that it exists three times (not two) in the exported Registry file.
Replace the first set up to Tokens with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
Replace the second set up to Tokens with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokens
Replace the third set up to Tokens with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftSPEECHVoicesTokens
Here is an example using the U.S. Cortana voice Eva.
Original File:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppContainerStoragemicrosoft.windows.cortana_cw5n1h2txyewySOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreIsolatedohDO1Sgy3MzgdEgEb4WYfDS4eikKwN2EBJ1Cyr7HTF0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaM] @='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'LangDataPath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USMSTTSLocenUS.dat' 'LangUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' 'VoicePath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USM1033Eva' 'VoiceUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' '409'='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'CLSID'='{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}'
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaM] @='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'LangDataPath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USMSTTSLocenUS.dat' 'LangUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' 'VoicePath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USM1033Eva' 'VoiceUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' '409'='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'CLSID'='{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}'
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaM] @='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'LangDataPath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USMSTTSLocenUS.dat' 'LangUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' 'VoicePath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USM1033Eva' 'VoiceUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' '409'='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'CLSID'='{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}'
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftSPEECHVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaM] @='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'LangDataPath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USMSTTSLocenUS.dat' 'LangUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' 'VoicePath'='%windir%Speech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-USM1033Eva' 'VoiceUpdateDataDirectory'='%SystemDrive%DataSharedDataSpeech_OneCoreEnginesTTSen-US' '409'='Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)' 'CLSID'='{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}'