At&t Natural Voice Sapi 5 - English Voices
Narrator for Windows (all versions) has a few built-in options for male and female voices.(Microsoft)Here is a good source for more voices:(Zero2000.com)Excerpt:In the world of today, more and more people use the text to speechcomputer technology to free their eyes and save time. As a vitalcomponent of the text to speech technology, voices, i.e. Speechengines, are the core of text to speech software. Because text tospeech software need to invoke voices to synthetic speech and outputspoken audio.There are many voices available on the Internet today, such as AT&TNatural Voices, Cepstral voices, IVONA voices, CereProc voices,NeoSpeech voices, etc.
But most of these voices are commercial andthe prices are even higher than the prices of normal text-to-speechsoftware. For example, the prices of AT&T Natural Voices are $35 (baserequired) plus $35 per additional voice, and the prices of Cepstralvoices are &29.99 per voice.Fortunately, there are also enough high-quality free voices we canuse.
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 MicrosoftWindows 2000 and Windows XP. Though not the default, Microsoft Sam isalso 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 voicesrespectively with better quality, available for download from theMicrosoft website or other third party text-to-speech relatedwebsites.The most noticeable feature of these three voices is there are bothSAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of them. Sabnzbd downloads.
SAPI 5 voices are only availableon Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems. As anexception, the SAPI 5 versions of these voices cannot be installed onWindows Vista and Windows 7.
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The SAPI 4 versions are more compatible.They can be installed and used on Windows 98 and all the later Windowsoperating systems.Microsoft Anna -Microsoft Anna is the default English voice shipped with Windows Vistaand Windows 7. Microsoft Anna is a SAPI 5-only voice and is designedto sound more natural than the previous system default voice MicrosoftSam.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 nostandalone installer of this voice on the Microsoft website. The onlyway to use this fantastic voice on Windows XP is by the MicrosoftStreets & Trips. The Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 and later versionsinstall the voice and the new Microsoft SAPI onto Windows XP computersfor the voice-prompt direction feature.Some third party text-to-speech related websites supply smallerrepacked Microsoft Anna installers for Windows XP users. However, it'sincomplete and not working correctly on Windows XP because the SAPIversion of Windows XP is 5.1.Lernout & Hauspie Voices -Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-basedspeech recognition technology company.
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This company released dozens ofhigh-quality SAPI 4 voices across multiple languages, including tenAmerican English voices and two British English voices.In addition, Lernout & Hauspie Michael and Michelle are also optionalmale and female voices licensed by Microsoft from Lernout & Hauspie,and available through Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 orMicrosoft Reader.Most of the above voices can be found on the Microsoft's website ordownloaded directly from the 2nd Speech Center web site. Todownload them immediately.
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