• • • • • Free text-to-speech (TTS) or speech synthesizers Your computer almost certainly comes with at least one synthesizer. Later versions of Windows have better voices and more of them. Below are some free options that all support SAPI5 - that is, they will work with most software on a Microsoft Windows machine. Microsoft diagnostics and recovery toolset msdart. All will work with the Thunder and NVDA free screenreaders. There are free voices further down the Balabolka download page at: or you can search for other voices. To change the voice, rate and pitch of the speech settings, click on the configure voice icon (orange hand with finger pointing at a page of text). Popular Alternatives to Foxit Reader for Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and more. Explore 71 apps like Foxit Reader, all suggested and ranked by the. Download Balabolka (Freeware). Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. Universities and public bodies regularly produce new speech synthesizers from research projects and attempts to support their language or accent. These either disappear from the web after a year or two or get brought up and commercialised by a new or existing speech synthesis company. ESpeak is the exception: it's been around for a decade at least. But any of the other links below may be broken or no longer provide the voice described. Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows has shipped with a speech synthesizer since Windows 2000 - Microsoft Sam until Microsoft Vista, other voices since then. English and Chinese were usually freely available. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. You simply install the 'Language Pack' from Control Panel and the voice will appear. Confusingly, Windows 10 also has many voices that are Windows Runtime voices or Mobile voices, not the SAPI5 voices that will work in your software. See on the Blog for more details. None of the below are these Windows Runtime voices. Www.neospeech.com has good quality voices at reasonable prices and a user friendly website. Caution with neospeech. You must have admin access to your computer because they send you a license key which has to be copy/pasted into a specific file. This is not a novice job to add languages. They've made it exceptionally more difficult than it needs to be. Www.cepstral.com also offers voices for sale. They encourage you to download and try them first before buying them. Unfortunately, the one I tried wouldn't work in CrazyTalk7. AT&T Natural Voices are also available, but the website refers you to Wizard Software. Good luck trying to navigate that site. In my opinion, they are not user friendly to the one-off developer who needs a TTS voice for use in online learning. I found a couple of others that offer voices but their websites are so user unfriendly I passed on trying to use them. This is not an easy question to get answered. There are other posts in this site (see related threads) that ask the same question but no one knows (or is willing to say) who to use other than 'third party' suppliers. Windows XP had Microsoft SAM, he was replaced with Anna and the Eastern version of Windows had Lily and all three of those are by Microsoft. I don't see why they can't let their customers choose which we prefer. If you google 'Balabolka' you should find the website of a text to speech application that is easy to use and they have a free download. ScreemingBee provide one called ScriptVox that has a free trial period. However while these applications work well, I could not see how to use the voices they provide with the Microsoft Text to speech API or to set them as the default system voice, but it may be possible if (unlike me) you know what you are doing;) ~~~ PEr aRDUa ad asTrA ~~~ (through adversity to the stars). I will tell you the 3rd party program *I* use.
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