Ivona’s new voices (Eric, Ivy, Jennifer, Joey, Kendra and Kimberly) were not there. Immediately, I went to Windows 10’s Text-to-Speech settings hoping to see the new voices in the voice-selection dropdown menu, but it was not to be. Then, ran the executable file (VisionAid American English Ivona Voice Pack Setup 2.6.2.exe), which at the end announced that the setup was successful. Unfortunately, despite following your recommendations, I am still to be able to see the voices I downloaded added to Windows 10’s pool of voices.įollowing your article, I downloaded Ivona’s Anerican English Voice Pack from VisionAid’s website. I think I shall visit again since you seem to have a few nuggets of info worth exploring. Having links to sources is very valuable. Your article about “How to Install & Use Third Party TTS Voices in Windows 10” looks like what I need. Found it while looking for guidance on how to add more voices, in particular third party voices, to Windows 10.
I am a first-time visitor to your website. Using the third party TTS voices in Windows 10 is a breeze if you know what type of voice packs you have installed. TTSReader can also save the speech output to an MP3 or WAV audio file.Ĭonclusion: If you are not happy with the default Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David TTS voices available in Windows 10, then you can get third party TTS voices for free or buy them online. In the application, you can choose one of the available TTS voices and control its speech, volume and pitch. TTSReader is a free application and can read all the text that you have copied to the clipboard automatically. Using the Newly Installed Voice in Desktop Applicationįor using the newly installed voices in Windows 10 requires you to either use a Windows app that you can download from the official Microsoft apps store or a desktop application like TTSReader that you can download from. For using them, use specific apps like TTSReader mentioned below. Even the same voice pack may use different API for different versions of the voice packs.
Note: Not all voice packs installed may show up in these settings depending on the API used by them. In the window that opens, you can choose a default voice from Voice Selection list-box and then finally click on OK button. In the Control Panel, search for “speech” and then click on the Change text to speech settings. You can press the Win+X and select Control Panel from the menu. In order to use them, you have open Control Panel and choose the default voice. Most of the third party voices are designed to be used with the desktop applications. Some voices in Windows 10 are only meant for apps, and some for only desktop applications, while others can be used both for apps and traditional desktop applications. Setting a Default Voice for TTS in Windows 10 There are some other options for this tool like speak punctuation and parsing XML files. You can select one of the installed voices from the drop-down list, then type something in the text box and click on the Speak button. The Speech Test tool can be used to check the proper installation of these voices in your PC. The other tool installed is for managing the installed voice licenses on your PC.
You can open the Start Menu icon and search for Speech Test to find a small speech testing tool. If you have downloaded the speech packs from VisionAid website (link above), then the setup package installs some extra tools in your PC. Testing VisionAid Voices Packs in Windows 10 All you have to do is launch and go through the setup installer package and it will automatically install all the voices included in the package in your Windows 10 PC. Installation of these packs is usually very simple. You can download these various packs from where you will find voice packs from Ivona and Nuance (no longer work in Windows 10). But if you want to try out these high quality voices in Windows 10, then you can also download the 30-day trial versions too. You can also purchase very high quality TTS voices for Windows from companies like Ivona, Cepstral or CereProc. One of the sources for downloading free Microsoft and LTS TTS voices is Zero2000. Here is how you can install third party TTS voices, set them as default and use them in Windows desktop applications:ĭownload and install TTS Voice Packs in Windows 10 In case you are installing a third party voice pack for TTS then most probably it will be available for the desktop applications only. These two voices (namely Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David) that come pre-installed in Windows 10 are to be used with both apps and desktop applications. Windows 10 comes with two default voices installed to be used with the text-to-speech engines.
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