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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.
The operating system is a different voice then EZ - Builder.
Also, making changes to the Voice, Gender or Age in the Speech Setting control make no difference to the tone. It stays as British female adult. The emphasis and rate do change though.
Bob,
The beginning of this tutorial (which is really about getting 3rd party voices to work) does show how to banish the Hazel voice (at least until M$ pushes it out in another update).
https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/UserTutorials/32/1
Microsoft really hosed up SAPI5 starting in Windows 7 so the controls for manipulating the voice in ARC, or really any application just don't work right anymore.
Alan
Argh, i can see how that would be frustrating. Let me see if there's anything i can do from my end
@Alan,
I have windows 10, and two voices David, and Zira, and i can play both in EZB and in the desktop, using the ARC Speech Settings.
Thanks DJ. @ptp, That's interesting that yours works OK. Are you running the latest version of ARC?
when i replied i was not, but now i am, and still works. male (David) ezb and desktop female (Zira) ezb and desktop
@BHouston,
Must be something on your configuration ?
Can you run Regedit and go to: computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices
press right button, Export select Save as Type: Win9x/NT4 Filename: voices on desktop
Once you have the file, rename to .txt and email to me (email is in the profile)