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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #7 on: Sep 3rd, 2014, 8:22pm »
It must be pointed out, however, that the quality of the text ouput by the speak command demonstrated in Richard Russell's SPEAK example program does depend heavily on the voice you have installed. I recently upgraded my computer and had to reinstall all programs. The speech was awful - almost unintelligible - until I installed an early version of Microsoft Autoroute which comes with quite a nice female voice.
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Re: Paid Work for Programmer Assistance
« Reply #8 on: Sep 3rd, 2014, 9:20pm »
I recently upgraded my computer and had to reinstall all programs. The speech was awful
You say you upgraded, but you omitted the most important piece of information - to what version of Windows? On English versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 the default voice is Microsoft Anna; no male voice is included as standard. On Windows 8 Microsoft David (male), Microsoft Hazel (female, UK) and Microsoft Zira (female, US) are supplied.
It's worth bearing in mind that the SAPI5 command syntax allows you not only to use a specific voice (if available) but also to specify that a female or male voice is preferentially used. This can be useful when you don't know which voices will be available.
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