Hi Shannon,
Regarding the SAPI 5 voices which don't work, if you press the Start
button, type speech, wait a bit, and arrow down to Change Text to Speech
Settings, you get a Speech Properties dialog.In the Text to Speech tab,
which is the default tab, you can review the installed SAPI 5 voices .By
default, the U.S. Windows 7 comes installed with Microsoft Anna -
English (United States.This voice, at least, should work.As for other
SAPI 5 voices which appear in Window-Eyes and don't work, perhaps they
are proprietary and work only with certain other speech software. The
VoiceWare voices, VW Kate and VW Paul, both SAPI 5 voices installed with
the Kurzweil 1000, work fine with Window-Eyes on my machine.
Personally, VW Kate is my favorite voice of all I have tried, anywhere.
Hth,
Rod
On 12/11/13 10:49 AM, Shannon wrote:
Good morning I have downloaded the Microsoft platform voices in English. I
am running them on my win 7 64 machine and WE 8.4.
Funny that all the voices appear to be female? I wonder why? I haven't
decided if I like the girls yet but I have noticed that when reading e-mail
they pronounce things differently.
I am used to eloquence Read. When I use Hazel, Zirapro or Helen they
report FW: in the subjects of email as Fort Worth instead of F W.
They are all pretty slow in response to the feedback from the keyboard. You
are waiting on them to respond. Speeding them up doesn't help. They just
talk faster when they finally decide to talk to you.
Can these voices utilize the exception dictionaries? That way maybe I could
fix the Fort Worth problem?
They also could use some help on the way they pronounce each individual
letters. They are not very clear.
They actually read text fine if you are just going to listen to them read.
I don't much care for the voices as far as working with them.
On an aside.
With all the talk about synths, I was looking at the sappy voices. There are
a bunch of Sappi 5 voices listed on this Win 7 machine but none of them
actually work.
Why is that? Do you have to purchase them too? Or is there a setting that
has to be changed to use Sappi voices?
Thanks
Shannon
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