I need some help with getting the Ivona voices to work with ARC. I've downloaded and install the voice pack. Then I visited 'ease of access/text to speech' and made the new Ivona voice the default voice (default was anna). I tested the voice outside of ARC and it works as default. In ARC, I add 'speech synth' and the 'speech settings'. The Ivona voice Brian is available from the drop down but no matter how many times I select it, Anna plays instead.
I understand that Ivona is SAPI 5 and 64 bit (im running win 7 64 bit on mac under boot camp). Interestingly, I looked under programs and programs (x86) and it installed in programsx86, so it looks to install as 32 bit, but there is a 64 bit folder with .dlls?!
Any ideas how to get these two to play together? I'm also going to try on another machine, just in case.
Ok, ive installed the voice onto 3 machines and get the same issue on all of them. Rich if you have any other thoughts or memories of what you might have done?!?! I shot off an email to support to see if they can help resolve the issue and asked to be sure I had a 64 bit version.
edit: @Rich missed your last txt will send you a link
To be honest it only happened on my laptop and I'm pretty sure all I did was tried all settings in the settings control which eventually made it work.
I just checked out the info on their website and can't see anything that jumps out at me saying it wont work. In fact, they claim they are fully compatible with XP and newer so it should work.
Hopefully their tech support will help. The only other things I can think of suggesting you have already done.
OK thanks, still sent the voice to you just incase it rings a bell check email.
Got it thanks.
Just had a 5 minute play and couldn't get it going in ARC (Win 7 x64) either. It was either Anna (for female option) or Jarvis' voice (for male) even with the voice set as default. I'll have another play tomorrow when I have more time.
Thanks. Any help very much appreciated.
@fxrtst.
I had a similar issue to what your experiencing a little while ago trying to get a Cepstral voice with robotic effect working with ARC. I found a thread here on post #24 from rgordon that helped me to get the voice working with the effect and it works great now. It consisted of changing things in the C:/program files. Maybe this might point you in the right direction to get your Ivona voice working the way you would like.
Hope it helps.
Steve.
Any luck Rich? I'm afraid I'm stuck with an American voice
I've been chatting back and forth with tech support. And they are stumped. But I got this reply today:
"Hello,
One more question. Did you try to call the voice with its language code? Could you please describe how you send the voice request? In some cases, if the language code is set to en-us for instance, and the IVONA voice is British or Indian English, the app may use another voice available in the system."
Can anyone shed light on how to check on this?