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I am building an application for speech recognization, and I want different voices to be speak, can you tell me that what should I do????? Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:07 PM text/html 1/15/2012 2:34:12 PM Rick Dee 1. To unlock extra Text to Speech voices in Windows 10, do the following. Open the Registry Editor app. Go to the following Registry key. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft SpeechOneCore Voices Tokens. See how to go to a Registry key with one click. Here you will see the list of voices installed in your Windows 10.

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Your computer almost certainly comes with at least one synthesizer. Later versions of Windows have better voices and more of them. Below are some free options that all support SAPI5 - that is, they will work with most software on a Microsoft Windows machine. All will work with the Thunder and NVDA free screenreaders.

The voices that appear under the Voice selection option on Control Panel is what is currently available on your system. If you would like to get additional voices, kindly refer to this article for steps on how to download new available updates: Appendix C: TTS voices. Let us know if you will need further assistance. Note: If the list of available text-to-speech voices is small, or all the voices sound the same, then you may need to install text-to-speech voices on your device. Many operating systems (including some versions of Android, for example) only come with one voice by default, and the others need to be downloaded in your device's settings.

Universities and public bodies regularly produce new speech synthesizers from research projects and attempts to support their language or accent. These either disappear from the web after a year or two or get brought up and commercialised by a new or existing speech synthesis company. eSpeak is the exception: it's been around for a decade at least. But any of the other links below may be broken or no longer provide the voice described.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows has shipped with a speech synthesizer since Windows 2000 - Microsoft Sam until Microsoft Vista, other voices since then. English and Chinese were usually freely available. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. You simply install the 'Language Pack' from Control Panel and the voice will appear.

Confusingly, Windows 10 also has many voices that are Windows Runtime voices or Mobile voices, not the SAPI5 voices that will work in your software. See Microsoft Speech on the Blog for more details. None of the below are these Windows Runtime voices.

All these SAPI5 voices can be expected to be found on Windows 8.1 and 10, either because (1) I've installed a language pack and found them or (2) they are on the Microsoft website, though incorrectly labeled.

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Windows 8 SAPI5 Voices
Korean Heami
US English David
UK English Hazel
US English Zira
Spanish Helena
French Hortense
German Hedda
Japanese Haruka
Chinese (simplified) Hanhan and Huihui
Windows 8.1 and 10 SAPI5 Voices - all the above plus:
Mexican Spanish Sabina
Indian English Heera
Chinese (traditional) Tracy
Italian Elsa
Polish Paulina
Portuguese Maria (possibly Brazilian)
Russian Irina

Here are the Windows Mobile voices for Windows 10 Creators Edition (Spring 2017). Original Microsoft list. Your assistive tech may or may not be able to use them (Narrator can now).

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Windows 10 Mobile Voices
Arabic Hoda & Naayf
Brazilian Portuguese Daniel & Maria
Bulgarian Ivan
Catalan Herena
Chinese (Simplified) Kangkang, Huihui & Yaoyao
Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) Danny & Tracy
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) Zhiwei, Yating & Hanhan
Croatian Matej
Czech (Czech Republic) Vit
Danish Helle
Dutch Frank
English (Australia) James & Catherine
English (Canada) Richard & Linda
English (Great Britain) George, Hazel & Susan
English (India) Ravi & Heera
English (Ireland) Shaun
English (United States) David, Mark & Zira
Finnish Heidi
Flemish (Belgian Dutch) Bart
French (Canada) Claude & Caroline
French (France) Paul, Hortence & Julie
German (Germany) Stefan, Hedda & Katja
German (Switzerland) Karsten
Greek Stefanos
Hebrew Asaf
Hindi Hemant & Kalpana
Hungarian Szabolcs
Indonesian Andika
Italian Cosimo & Elsa
Japanese Ichiro, Ayumi & Haruka
Malay Rizwan
Norwegian Jon
Polish Adam & Paulina
Portuguese (Portugal) Helia
Romanian Andrei
Russian Pavel & Irina
Slovak Filip
Slovenian Lado
Korean Heami
Spanish (Spain) Pablo, Helena & Laura
Spanish (Mexico) Raul & Sabina
Swedish Bengt
Tamil Valluvar
Thai Pattara
Turkish Tolga
Vietnamese An

eSpeak

eSpeak is an open-source (GPL V3) TTS system. There's a SAPI5 DLL, and commandline options. It's developed by Jonathan Duddington. It's probably the most common speech synthesizer in open-source systems at the time of writing. It sounds like a 'traditional' speech synthesizer - quite robotic - but this means it's exceptionally clear, high-performance and easy to add language support to it. I know many blind people who use it exclusively in preference to the commercial 'human-sounding' voices.

You get:

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  • Open-source eSpeak voices - 'usable' and 'provisional'
  • Voice variants for the voices - male and female, and 5 variants of each, and 'croak' and 'whisper'.
  • Non-open-source MBROLA voice support. There is a wide range of these, and they are good, but the licence is not GPL: you have permission to redistribute for non-commercial free programs, and you must use the MBROLA program itself to generate the speech. I'm going to assume that the eSpeak DLL calls the MBROLA engine to be in line with the licence. I notice that you have to get the MBROLA voices separately from the eSpeak install.
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On Windows, you can install eSpeak then run 'C:Program Files (x86)eSpeakcommand_lineespeak.exe'. The commandline options:

  • --voices Show all the voices
  • -vXX Use voice XX, e.g. '-vaf' is 'use the af voice'.
  • -vXX+YY Use variant YY, e.g. '-vaf+f2' is 'use the af voice with the female variant 2'. The variants are:
    • None (male voice)
    • +m1, +m2, +m3, +m4, +m5 (male variants)
    • +f (female voice)
    • +f1, +f2, +f3, +f4, +f5 (female variants)
    • +whisper (male whisper)

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Asharir - Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu

These were free SAPI5 text-to-speech voices from Asharir in India. However, they've disappeared from the Internet, so until someone complains a download link follows. They supported Hindi, English, Tamil, Kannada, and Telugu, though I can't vouch for them.

  • Asharir SAPI5 Setup Installer file.

Welsh

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  • Free male and female Welsh synthesizer voices from Ivona. Ivona is a big commercial speech synthesis company, and the Welsh Assembly (the devolved Welsh government within the UK) appears to have paid them to create these two voices for Welsh.

Maltese

  • Free Maltese voice. Again, this looks like a voice paid for by the Maltese government.

Ekho - Chinese, Tibetan, Korean

  • Ekho provides Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin), Tibetan, and Korean support. It's free GPL open-source software.
  • NHM - Vietnamese

    A free Vietnamese TTS engine is available from NHM Text to Speech. Robotic-sounding. Free to use and distribute.