New versions of Windows often add new text-to-speech voices. Windows Vista added Anna which was retained up to Windows 7. Windows 8 also had new voices, David, Zira and Hazel. Windows 10 features a set of additional voices which you can use with Narrator and Cortana.
- Computer Voice Text To Speech
- Apple Text To Speech Voices
- Mac Text To Speech Voices Alex For Windows 7
If you are following Winaero for some time, you may remember the article related to one of the pre-release Windows 10 builds where we saw how it was possible to get two extra voices, Microsoft Mark Mobile and Microsoft Eva Mobile. The same method can be used to get extra voices in recent Windows 10 builds.
Tip: If you a fan of Text-to-Speech voices, you can get many more localized voices if you install Language Packs for your version of Windows. For example, the Spanish version includes Helena and Sabina. The French version has Microsoft Hortense, German has Hedda, Japanese has Haruka and Huihui, Chinese Traditional version has Tracy and so on. See the corresponding table at the end of this article.
The text-to-voice converts text to speech. You can enter your own text, and convert. Text you can store and play button again. The voices are dependent on Windows 10 extra votes can be added to the Windows settings. Mar 29, 2019 This wikiHow teaches you how to record Text-to-Speech on a Windows or Mac computer. Text-to-speech software converts text to computerized spoken dialogue, but recording it can be a hassle. Luckily there are a variety of free online text-to-speech services that can turn your written text into an audio file which you can download directly! May 20, 2018 With over 20 computerized voices, Speakonia is a freeware in the category of text-to-speech program that reads text aloud to you. Swiftly adjust the reading pitch and rate, type text to speech, open any text document for reading, save content in WAV format to be able to listen to the files on the go with Speakonia effortlessly. Feb 23, 2018 Language voices for Mac can be installed through the Mac OS X operating system. Mac offers a variety of voices through System Preferences. To add voices: Choose a voice. Choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Dictation & Speech, then click Text to Speech. Click the pop-up menu, then choose a voice.
The voices can be unlocked with a special Registry tweak. Before proceeding, ensure that your user account has administrative privileges. Now, follow the instructions below.
To unlock extra Text to Speech voices in Windows 10, do the following.
- Open the Registry Editor app.
- Go to the following Registry key.See how to go to a Registry key with one click. Here you will see the list of voices installed in your Windows 10. In my case, it looks as follows, while I can't access all of them.
- On the left, right-click on the voice you want to make available and select 'Export' from the context menu.
- Open the *.reg file with Notepad and replace the portion
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreTokens
withHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokens
. - If you are running 64-bit Windows, you may want to make the voice available to third-party 32-bit apps. Copy everything below the
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
line and paste to the end of the file. - For the pasted lines, replace the registry path from
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokens
withHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftSPEECHVoicesTokens
. - Save your edited file as a new *.reg file and double-click it to merge it.
Voila, you can access this voice from the Settings app.
The exported Registry file for the George (en-GB) voice:
Computer Voice Text To Speech
The same file after all the required edits:
Here is the list of voices that can be found in various language packs.
Language, country, or region | Male voice name | Female voice name |
---|---|---|
Arabic | Not applicable | Hoda |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | Naayf | Not applicable |
Bulgarian | Ivan | Not applicable |
Catalan | Not applicable | Herena |
Chinese (Simplified) | Kangkang | Huihui, Yaoyao |
Cantonese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) | Danny | Tracy |
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) | Zhiwei | Yating, Hanhan |
Croatian | Matej | Not applicable |
Czech (Czech Republic) | Jakub | Not applicable |
Danish | Not applicable | Helle |
Dutch | Frank | Not applicable |
English (Australia) | James | Catherine |
English (Canada) | Richard | Linda |
English (Great Britain) | George | Hazel, Susan |
English (India) | Ravi | Heera |
English (Ireland) | Sean | Not applicable |
English (United States) | David, Mark | Zira |
Finnish | Not applicable | Heidi |
Flemish (Belgian Dutch) | Bart | Not applicable |
French (Canada) | Claude | Caroline |
French (France) | Paul | Hortence, Julie |
German (Germany) | Stefan | Hedda, Katja |
German (Switzerland) | Karsten | Not applicable |
Greek | Stefanos | Not applicable |
Hebrew | Asaf | Not applicable |
Hindi (India) | Hemant | Kalpana |
Hungarian (Hungary) | Szabolcs | Not applicable |
Indonesian (Indonesia) | Andika | Not applicable |
Italian | Cosimo | Elsa |
Japanese | Ichiro | Ayumi, Haruka |
Malay | Rizwan | Not applicable |
Norwegian | Jon | Not applicable |
Polish (Poland) | Adam | Paulina |
Portuguese (Brazil) | Daniel | Maria |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Not applicable | Helia |
Romanian (Romania) | Andrei | Not applicable |
Russian (Russia) | Pavel | Irina |
Slovak (Slovakia) | Filip | Not applicable |
Slovenian | Lado | Not applicable |
Korean | Not applicable | Heami |
Spanish (Spain) | Pablo | Helena, Laura |
Spanish (Mexico) | Raul | Sabina |
Swedish | Bengt | Not applicable |
Tamil | Valluvar | Not applicable |
Thai (Thailand) | Pattara | Not applicable |
Turkish | Tolga | Not applicable |
Vietnamese | An | Not applicable |
Cortana voices
The same way, you can access extra Cortana voices. Export the voices from the following Registry branch:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionAppContainerStoragemicrosoft.windows.cortana_cw5n1h2txyewySOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreIsolatedjWXZvMzcRxToSdOzNgXV_L3ZSrLDNbZuY5NZNWCCUd8HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
Then edit the exported file and place the values of the exported path under the following Registry branches
![Voices Voices](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/m__/images/d/d7/MacInTalk_Voice_Alex_Redesign.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20180420113432&path-prefix=mssam)
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeech_OneCoreVoicesTokens
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokens
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeMicrosoftSPEECHVoicesToken
Apple Text To Speech Voices
For reference, you can download the Registry tweak for the Eva voice.
That's it. (via Reddit).
Mac Text To Speech Voices Alex For Windows 7
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