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Title: Text To Speech
Post by: T_A on January 11, 2006, 01:12:39 am

since some missions/campaing do not come with Voice acting i would prefer to hear a robot than read the text everytime which is
highly disturbing
now, in the "speech" tab of the launcher it will recodnze the microsoft engine`s voices
my questions are this:

1) can i see other TTS engines  ? (i installed IBM ViaVoice but i dont see it)
2) what voices CAN i add ? (a name of a product could be useful) to the MS speech engine (except the defualt one - sam,mike,marry)

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: karajorma on January 11, 2006, 02:24:40 am

No idea why you can't see ViaVoice but AT&T's Natural Voices (http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/) sounds quite nice. Only problem was that it used a fair bit of CPU power so the voice was very stuttering for me. Maybe with a dual CPU rig I could split the two tasks.

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: CP5670 on January 11, 2006, 04:16:25 am

Are these other voices better than the default Microsoft ones? I would rather just read the text than listen to those voices, which are great for laughs but not much else. :p Imagine if instead of Snipes it was MS Sam that said "DIVE! DIVE! DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!" in his weird way. :D

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: T_A on January 11, 2006, 08:52:48 am

MS Sam is the worst ever
it sounds very robotic
but MS mike is a bit better

i heard the demos for AT&T and they sound very good , almost like a real person

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: karajorma on January 11, 2006, 01:25:10 pm

They are very good. But they are big (One CD for each voice) and therefore slow).

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 19, 2007, 12:02:06 am

Bump ahoy.

I happened to find an interesting package/program/thingy from Microsoft's maze of a home page. In addition to it's intended purpose (Microsoft Reader TTS stuff) installs two new voices, LH Michael and LH Michelle, that can be used for example in FS2_Open.

The page is http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp (http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/tts.asp).


I think they are at least a little (though not much...) better than default Mike, Mary and (heaven forbid) Sam... and at least they are free to DL and install.

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: Trivial Psychic on March 19, 2007, 01:50:51 am

Download page says that you need to have Microsoft Reader 2.0.  Any idea as to where one can grab that?

Title: Re: Text To Speech
Post by: Huggybaby on March 19, 2007, 02:09:56 am

From Microsoft of course...http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/0/9/d099ad62-41d1-4e92-9935-67955a437460/MSReaderSetupUSA.exe