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Title: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: iVoid on February 03, 2013, 05:32:09 pm

I used to play the SCP on windows xp, which had Microsoft Mike. It had a very synthetic "robot" voice, which I thought went very well with the sci-fi setting of the game. However, now I have windows 7 and the only voice I can choose is Microsoft Anna, who doesn't sound nowhere near as good for the game... So, all I wanted to know is if anybody agrees with me, and if anyone has figured out a way to install Microsoft Mike or another speech voice on the SCP.

Title: Re: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: Macfie on February 03, 2013, 07:45:26 pm

I'm on vista and still have microsoft michelle and mike.  I think the voices were in the Babylon five release.

Title: Re: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: jr2 on February 06, 2013, 05:17:55 pm

Did some Googling, found this:

http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/replace-microsoft-anna-windows-7/

Which links to this:

http://www.zero2000.com/free-text-to-speech-natural-voices.html

;)

Title: Re: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: BengalTiger on February 06, 2013, 05:29:49 pm

That should be useful.

Title: Re: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: iVoid on February 07, 2013, 12:14:34 pm

Too bad it doesn't work with windows 7 64bit :(

Title: Re: I miss Microsoft Mike :(
Post by: jr2 on February 07, 2013, 12:29:02 pm

Did some research, you may be able to get it working after reading the following:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproinstall/thread/c7409091-087e-48f2-8178-bcd918799054

http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=8356