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Re: Text-To-Speech
« Reply #2 on: Nov 2nd, 2015, 11:07am »
Concern? Windows 10 was my concern, but you slayed that dragon for me! Thanks!
This will be perfect in my project, since I only have a few short phrases to speak ... over and over ... the same each time. This will save me a hardware project, too.
As it turns out, there is only one voice available for Win7 and typical of MS you get what they provide and that's it.
As it turns out, there is only one voice available for Win7 and typical of MS you get what they provide and that's it.
Microsoft Anna I think, but you can of course download others (not necessarily free though). There are some nice SAPI5 voices available (at a cost) from http://www.textaloud.com/ . As a test I purchased Ivona Brian (a British English voice) and selected it in the LB program thus:
Code:
data "<voice required='name=IVONA 2 Brian OEM'>This is a demonstration of speech synthesis</voice>"