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I upgraded my system to Windows 10 and now in the Speech Settings control only female voice sounds are available. Is there a way to get male voice sounds or is this something Microsoft did? Tell me I'm not stuck with the Irritating British female voice.
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This may not be the preferred answer - however, there is nothing that can be done from ezrobot to change the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Also, if I buy a male voice will it come thru the V4 as a male voice?
I suspect that your Windows system probably got the Windows 10 anniversary update and it more than likely messed up any changes you did that got the voices working properly.
Microsoft has seriously messed up SAPI5 (the speech API) over the past few releases, and different editions (home/pro/Enterprise) and different countries of sale each have their own set of issues.
I am on my phone so searching is tricky, but I think Steve G did a good tutorial on getting Cepestral voices working, and despite needing to pay for them, I think that is the best option.
The issue with the various settings in the speech object not working is due to the fact that not every voice effect or feature is available on every voice.
Alan
Alan
Ed
Click Time & Language > Region & Language.
Under Languages, click + Add a language.
Select the language you want to use from the list, and then choose which region's version you want to use. Your download will begin immediately.
I haven't tried this since my EZb software is on a 7 machine running Crystal voice engine.. hope this helps
Ed
Madrocker what site are you getting voices from?
Microsoft Hazel Desktop
Microsoft Zira Desktop
Microsoft David Desktop
Cepstral David
and as I was worried about - they all sound like Hazel English accent!
Mine 10 machine looks like this
This tutorial will kill Hazel and let the Cepestral voice work.
http://www.ez-robot.com/Tutorials/UserTutorials/32/1
Note that step 5 has the US/CN directory. Steve is in the UK so his system os slightly different.
Alan
Alan, I had been thru that tutorial a while ago - that fixed me up last time.
Thanks for your help everyone.
Alan
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Ed