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Questions tagged [tts]

Text-To-Speech. An application that speaks typed text.

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How to enable Microsoft Eva (Cortana's voice) on Windows 10?

I really like to know how I can enable Microsoft Eva (Cortana's voice) on Windows 10? so I can use it as Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice, since that voice is already available on Windows 10.
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Does Chrome have a native TTS?

Windows has a native TTS (Text to Speech) program called Narrator, it can easily be enabled to read a specific paragraph on a text document. When I looked around to see if Chrome had a similar program that I could use when surfing, I found a bunch…
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How can I save Edge read aloud file for offline usage?

Edge browser has this read aloud feature, It reads text from any web page you want with a natural voice (there are robotic voice options too) but this feature doesn't work offline. Is there any ways (plugins, website, etc...) that let me save the…
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Does Microsoft Word (2019, NOT 365) Text-To-Speech support custom word pronunciation?

Just discovered TTS and it's a godsend but for things like names, the pronunciation is getting slaughtered. I can live with it, but I'd prefer that I didn't have to do so. After a few google searches, I came upon this -…
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Use the new Siri voices on macOS to render text to audio files

macOS now has a few newly added voices that we can choose from in VoiceOver Utility > Speech. I quite like the Siri Male (United States) voice, but neither the command say nor using Automator will let me select this or any other Siri voices to use.…
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Balabolka doesn't show any of installed voices

I'm using a x64 Windows 10 version, then I installed a balabolka TTS software along with IVONA voices and everything went well until the system did some updates then balabolka no longer recognized any voices at all (SAPI4, SAPI5, Microsoft Speech…
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Windows PowerShell: how to Set and Run Download of TTS language onto Windows 10 via

I would like to install a language voice onto Windows 10. Using the [Windows PowerShell] (see this link) and the following commands is possible to add a new language in the Windows 10: PS C:\> $OldList = Get-WinUserLanguageList PS C:\>…
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Speed Up Rate of Text To Speech via Terminal

I used to have my TTS custom set to read things back nice and fast, works better for me as I'm basically ADD & mildy dyslexic. Now I'm not much of an expert, but I've just hunted as best I can… tracking back to what I must have posted in Terminal…
Ritch
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Text-to-Speech Fadeout (BUG) --- RE:sound card hardware, windows TTS engine or controlling apps

Problem: Applications that use Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine cause the speech to fadeout mid sentence. Reads current sentence of text then fades out after about 1-2 seconds only to return at the beginning of the next sentence only to repeat the same…
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Daisy chain audio between Windows applications - is it possible?

As a fun (robot) project I have a text-to-speech Windows 7 application which produces speech which it outputs through the normal audio out or speakers. Then I also have a vocoder running in a VST Host which gets its input from line-in or mic. How…
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Arpabet phonemes to Text-to-speech engine

I'm using the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary for a project and it stores words as a pair consisting of the word and then the phonemes in Arpabet style... hello -HH AH0 L OW1 I'd like to be able to feed the phones back into a Text-To-Speech…
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How to stop TTS software from waking me up at night

I am vision impaired and I have NVDA installed on my Windows 10 PC. Last night (after midnight), when Windows decided to auto-update (and reboot) itself, the PC started announcing its progress aloud ("Updating Windows, please don't turn off you…
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Better way to comment text in Balabolka, or alternative TTS app that supports block comments?

I have several scripts that need to be converted to generated (TTS) voice overs. Except for certain parts, which should remain in the text, but not be recorded in the audio. I'm using Balabolka, which provides a great many features, except for the…
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Using 32-bit TTS voices on windows 7 64-bit

I am having problems using a 32-bit voice on a 64-bit system (windows 7). I tried accessing and setting my installed 32-bit voices via C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl, but whenever I open my Word application (Microsoft Word, Excel) the…
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How to manually install a tts voice?

Okay so i recently downloaded a text to speech pack but, The pack must be old because it doesn't come with an install just a zip file with all the .tts files and i have no idea how to manually install these, anyone have a clue on how to do this?
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