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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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I followed the tutorial as suggested and that fixed things up. The control is working properly now. Thanks for every ones help.
I fired up InMoov tonight for the first time in months and I'm back to the same problem again - It's speaking with a female British voice again. Reviewed the tutorial - all good there. Tried a different version of ARC - no difference. My computer is set to a male voice. I see that only female voices are available in the Speech Settings Control - is that new?
Anyway, frustrated again. Anyone got any advice on this?I think it might have something to do with the Speech Settings Control. I can't adjust the Voice, Gender, Age, Emphasis or Rate and I only have 2 voice options - Zira and Hazel. I have tried deleting this control and then reinstalling it - no change. Can someone please let me know if this control is working for them or not. Thanks
Another reason i wont be upgrading to Win 10. Voices for my ALAN projects are so important. I had so much trouble getting to get Avona voices to work on Win 7. So much so I had to abandon and go with Cereproc which worked fine. Good luck, I will continue to watch this thread, before I install Winblows 10.
@fxtst, Ya, I'm getting to that point as well but I still want to confirm that the Control is working properly. I should be able to make adjustments within the Control but I can't. I'm sure that male voices use to be offered there as well.
Bob, I had Windows 8.1 upgraded to 10 and Zira and David voices are available on my Speech Settings. When I use SR, I change voice to male when the computer is talking, using ControlCommand("SpeechSettings",SetVoiceGender,"Male") I later ControlCommand changing it back to female for "Lal". I can also manually change it to female or male. Steve S.
Under Windows 10... I use a third party voice (Cereproc William) and it seems to work ok, however I have the opposite problem as Bob... Zira the female voice doesn't work, but David does... Edit Strangely though if I select a female voice for David or any other voice, I hear Zira instead (that's goes for any other voice. Select female and Zira speaks)... The only settings that seems to change anything are the Rate and Gender settings. Age and Emphasis appear to do nothing... I also am wondering if there is something wrong with the control settings itself?