Contents Overview A screenshot of Speakonia Speakonia itself is fairly simple to use for the average user, regardless of its skill level. The graphical user interface is similar to Notepad, in a technical way. A user simply has to type what they want the voice to say, and when they click the button that looks like a play button, the selected text-to-speech voice will read it. The user can change the voice at any time by going to the drop-down menu labeled Voice under the Speech Properties, and selecting another voice.
Nov 29, 2018 - So can someone please tell me how to either get to Microsoft Sam on Windows 7. Anywhere i can download a text to speech where microsoft sam is an option? Once the Microsoft voices are installed, Close Speakonia (if. Microsoft Sam is the famous text to speech voice. He is also included in the TTS Program Speakonia. Microsoft Sam and his Fellow TTS Voices Wiki is a Fandom. VoiceForge offers online Text-to-Speech TTS voices through a server application. We convert your Internet text into speech on-demand. Speakonia is a free text-to-speech program used for.
The user can also change the speed and volume of the voice with the sliders below the drop-down menu. It can also be installed in several languages.
Interface The Speakonia interface consists of 4 main elements: the menu bar, the toolbar, the text box, and the 'Speech Properties' Box. The Menu Bar is mostly for working with saving and exporting files, as well as registering the program. It is not the main focus of the program. The toolbar has some saving feature shortcuts, as well as commands for playing, pausing and stopping the voice from reading the text that has been entered into the text box.
The Text Box is where you will spend most of your time in the program. You simply type what you want the voice to say into the text box. Lastly, the Speech Properties window is the handiest tool in Speakonia. It allows you to switch between voices quickly, change the speed at which the voice speaks, change it's pitch and volume. This window also has the handy-dandy 'Lexicon' feature, which allows you to change the pronounciation of a word if the voice does not say it correctly.
The Speech Properties window in Speakonia. Microsoft Voices By default, Speakonia is included with at least 11 voices. This number can be greatly increased by installing a separate package of voices, called simply:. Once the download is complete, install the package and the Microsoft voices will be available for you to use, along with a number of other voices (RoboSoft 1-6, whispers, etc.).
Exporting as.WAV Speakonia has an option to export the spoken text as.WAV audio files. In order to export a file as a.WAV audio file, you must register Speakonia. To register, one must simply give their name and E-mail address.
From there, you will receive a code by e-mail and once registered, you will unlock all features of Speakonia. Registration is essential for anyone who wishes to use the voices in their YouTube videos. Trivia. The Default Adult Voices of Speakonia are actually adapted from the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice voices. They have been renamed also.
There are no pitch, speed and volume indicators to display levels of pitch, speed and volume. The Microsoft Voices included in Windows XP differ from the ones in Speakonia, with modified speech patterns. Instead it matches Windows 2000 Microsoft Sam. CFS-Technologies no longer supports Speakonia, but still has the program available for download on its site. (also available on the CNET download site). Speakonia will not work with Windows RT. Test voice of every TTS Voices are: 'This is a test for Speakonia.'
. To use the full potential of Speakonia, the following registration key is needed:. Name: Unlimited License.
Email: [email protected]. Reg.
Code: SPK-183 References NOTE: The Mediafire links may not work. If it fails, use the Google Drive links. Download Link:.
Mediafire links provided by Pieboy6000. Speakonia:. Microsoft voices (Sam, Mike, Mary and RoboSoft voices):. The other voices (such as british voices) can no longer be downloaded from the Speakonia website. They can however, be downloaded from here:. Alternatively, if the v3mail link doesn't work for certain voices, a Google Drive download for the common voices is always available, provided by Ducky. More links are available for the voices (which include more voices than previously available) either,.
Microsoft Sam saying, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1,234,567,890 times.' , followed by a demonstration of a that occurs when the words soi/soy are entered (soi cannot be uppercase in Windows XP or it will say the letters) Problems playing this file? The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are provided for use with applications that use the (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-speech voices. Client voices are shipped with Windows operating systems; server voices are available for download for use with server applications such as Speech Server, Lync etc.
For both Windows client and server platforms, and mobile voices are often shipped with more recent versions of. Also brings the mobile text to speech voices to the desktop starting with the Anniversary Update. Contents. Voices Windows 2000 and XP Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft. It is used by, the program built into the operating system.
Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website. Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from, and available through. There are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of these text-to-speech voices. SAPI 4 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems. While SAPI 5 versions of Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are downloadable only as a, the installable versions may be installed on end users' systems by speech applications such as Microsoft Reader. SAPI 4 redistributable versions are downloadable for, although no longer from the Microsoft website.
Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary can be used on Windows Vista and later with a third-party program (like Speakonia and TTSReader) installed on the machine that supports these operating systems, however, the speech patterns differ from the versions of these voices. In addition, LH Michael and LH Michelle can work on and later if Speakonia and the SAPI 4 version of the voices in British English is downloaded. Windows Vista and 7 Beginning with and, Microsoft Anna is the default English voice. It is a SAPI5-only female voice and is designed to sound more natural than Microsoft Sam.
2006 and later install the Microsoft Anna voice on Windows XP systems for the voice-prompt direction feature. There is no male voice shipping with Windows Vista and Windows 7. A female voice called Microsoft Lili that replaces the earlier male SAPI5 voice 'Microsoft Simplified Chinese' is available in Chinese versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can also be obtained in non-Chinese versions of Windows 7 or Vista by installing the. In 2010, Microsoft released the newer Speech Platform compatible voices for Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech for use with client and server applications.
These voices are available in 26 languages and can be installed on Windows client and server operating systems. Speech Platform voices unlike SAPI 5 voices, are female-only, no male voices are released publicly yet. Windows 8 and 8.1 In, there are three new client (desktop) voices - Microsoft David (US male), Hazel (UK female) and Zira (US female) which sound more natural than the now-eliminated Microsoft Anna. The server versions of these voices are available via above mentioned Speech Platform for operating systems earlier than Windows 8.
Unlike Windows 7 or Vista, one cannot use any third-party program for Microsoft Anna because there is no Anna Voice API for download. Other voices are available for specific language versions of either.
Windows 10 and later In, Microsoft Hazel was removed from the US English Language Pack and the Microsoft voices for Mobile (Phone/tablet) are available (Microsoft Mark and Microsoft Zira). These are the same voices found on,. Also with these voices language packs are also available for a variety of voices similar to that of. None of these voices match the text-to-speech voice which can be found on,. Since Microsoft is trying to make things universal with, they decided to use all current text-to-speech voices cross-platform except for Microsoft David on the phone and a few other cases. Mobile Every mobile voice package always has the combination of male/female, while most of the desktop voice packages have only female voices.
For Mobile voices, all voices have been made universal and any user who downloads the language pack of that choice will have one extra male and female voice per that package. A hidden text-to-speech voice in Windows 10 called Microsoft Eva Mobile is present within the system. Users can download a pre-packaged registry file from the windowsreport.com website.
Microsoft Eva is believed to be the early voice for until replaced her with the voice of in most areas. These voices are updated with Windows to sound more natural than in the original version as seen in the.
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