tibberous Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 It only has one voice, Anna, and I can't get the old voices to work. There isn't anything on Google about changing the voice, except forum posts of people asking how and not getting a response. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Probably can't, knowing MS. Look for a 3rd Party TTS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Beginning with Windows Vista and Windows 7' date=' Microsoft Anna is the default and [b']only English voice[/b] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 .... That's beyond stupid. The problem with using a 3rd party TTS is that they all generally used MS'es speech API - should be a lesson as to why not rely on anything M$ makes. I hope they get sued by the blind. I might check out that one they have for Windows and Linux... carnival or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I hope they get sued by the blind. Why would they get sued for only having one voice option? They provide a means for text-to-speech, no one said they had to make 100 different voices depending on your country of origin / gender etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 It wouldn't be so bad if they had use Mike - Mike was always the best voice, but they made Sam the default, so no one even probably used Mike. How is Anonymous supposed to make anti-Scientology videos? Run XP in Virtualbox for 10 years? I was just thinking how nice Windows 7 is and how all my hardware is working and M$ goes and screws it up. Still, it does have a drop-down box for language - so maybe there is or is going to be some way to add at least 3rd party voices? Or is that just so Chinese users can pick between language versions of Anna? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I hope they get sued by the blind. /facepalm Really? really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 If I was blind, I would be pissed off more pissed off. Besides, if they even threatened a suit, Microsoft would spend the couple days to port the old TTS engine just to avoid the press. I'm not asking for them to make a bunch of voices, I'm just asking for them to take the code they already wrote and make it run on Windows 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 What exactly makes you think you're entitled to multiple voices? Basically they should be sued because you like Mike's voice better than Anna's? Please stop trolling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerny Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 i like girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 People are actually complaining about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PugJr Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 Aw man. That was my favorite computer game that Windows offered. Who didn't love Sam and how he said 'soy'? soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy soy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibberous Posted June 12, 2010 Author Share Posted June 12, 2010 I actually use text to speech. It's great for catching typo's and for long paragraphs. I wouldn't care if there was one voice, if the one voice didn't suck. It sounds like Alphonse's brother from FMA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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