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Title: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: Meatball on September 13, 2010, 11:34:41 am

I go directly to the question.

Is Sam, Mike and Mary the only available Microsoft TTS on Windows XP?
I've heard Vista has one more, don't know about 7.

But they really are bad if you compare to a lot you can find just online. Like Ivona.com or Acapela that has really realistic voices.
Is it just that Microsoft TTS don't support better voices? :P
I have looked a lot but nothing found. Just Mary, Sam and Mike -.-'

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: Starkweather on September 13, 2010, 01:10:53 pm

Yeah, you answered your own question. At least to my knowledge, there are no more voices that come bundled with XP.

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: Charismatic on September 14, 2010, 04:34:53 pm

Any free speech to  text programs? Aka using MIC in mulitplayer and it being typed for you?

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: Topgun on September 14, 2010, 08:04:32 pm

Quote from: Charismatic on September 14, 2010, 04:34:53 pm

Any free speech to  text programs? Aka using MIC in mulitplayer and it being typed for you?

that would be awesome

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: Androgeos Exeunt on September 16, 2010, 07:56:08 am

Lernout and Hauspie made two additional TTSes for Windows, called LH Michael and LH Michelle. I've personally tried LH Michael out as a Vasudan voiceover, and thought he did the job pretty well. My standards were pretty low back then, though.

Here is a video of how a telephone conversation between MS Sam and LH Michael might be like. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMdp0EVVcRI)

Title: Re: Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Post by: SypheDMar on September 17, 2010, 05:56:17 pm

Neospeech has great voices. And if you choose one that's of another language, just use Wikipedia to figure out the pronunciation of the words you'd like to correct.