The setup is a bit involved (you have to set up an AWS account etc), but if it should work for you (unfortunately for me it’s a hit a miss with P2A. $ Amazon Polly: Check out their AWS Polly plugin for Windows (there’s also a thread in the P2A forum about it).
Also note that their current voice versions (V6) are reported to have issues with P2A, but they’ll provide you with the V5 version if you ask, and they seem to work fine
#TTS VOICES FOR WINDOWS INSTALL#
4-Select the language you would like to install voices for and select Add. 3-Under Manage voices, select Add voices. This will take you to the Speech settings page. 2-Under Personalize Narrator’s voice, select Add more voices. It allows you to use the popular ETI-Eloquence voices in any application that supports SAPI voices (e.g. To use one of these voices, add it to your PC: 1-Open Narrator Settings by pressing the Windows logo key + Ctrl + N.
#TTS VOICES FOR WINDOWS FULL#
Other than manually typing text, you can also import text from a local text file to convert it to speech. Eloquence for Windows is a full SAPI v5 Text-to-speech (TTS) Synthesizer for the Windows operating system. Balabolka can use the Microsoft Speech API 4.x/5.x voices and the Microsoft Speech Platform text-to-speech.
#TTS VOICES FOR WINDOWS SOFTWARE#
It is a straightforward software that is designed to convert an entered text to speech. Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. It also works great if youre tired of hearing abbreviations mispronounced. If one opens the Win 10 speech control panel applet and temporarily selects an Ivona voice as the default voice, one can access the editor via the Voice Selection/Settings button.
I found though that their voices differ greatly in quality when used with P2A (pronunciation and intonation with ATC lingo), so you should try them out with specific phrases on their demo page. Text To Speech Converter (by avi-jkiapt) is yet another open source text to speech software for Windows. Actually, the Ivona voices have a pronunciation editor which impacts ALL TTS apps. I did like the CereProc voices much better, and purchased a few of them recently (they just had a sale during Easter week, and occasionally have others). $$$ Ivona or CereProc: Though lots of people recommend Ivona, I wasn’t impressed by the samples on their website. Some of those are actually quite good (e.g. Additionally, other mobile voices found in C:WindowsSpeechOneCoreEnginesTTSen-US can be enabled by copying the scipts from Enable-mobile-voices.txt to an admin PowerShell window. Although by default P2A can only ‘see’ two of the Windows voices, you can actually get a lot more working by doing some registry tricks (there’s a post in the P2A forum explaining this). The microsoft text-to-speech platform uses the TTS engine of the Microsoft Speech Service to read a text with natural sounding voices. Open a PowerShell window (< PowerShell 7) as admin and copy all of Test-TTS-voices.txt into the PowerShell window to test all available voices.