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jbenny · 10-09-2007, 11:44 PM

Not to sound like a commercial for Nextup.com, but you can buy NeoSpeech and other good voices from them for a fair price. I got both Kate and Paul (NeoSpeech) for $35.

BTW, the Microsoft voices Mike, Mary and Sam are built-in to Windows XP. I understand that Vista has an additional, better sounding voice. I haven't heard it. If you have an earlier version of Windows, or for some reason don't have them on XP, you want to install the SAPI 5.1 package, which you can download from MS. This package includes those three voices, as well as the speech API files that other programs use.

10-09-2007, 11:44 PM	#7
jbenny Addict Posts: 323 Karma: 358 Join Date: May 2007 Device: Tablet PC and Nokia N800	Not to sound like a commercial for Nextup.com, but you can buy NeoSpeech and other good voices from them for a fair price. I got both Kate and Paul (NeoSpeech) for $35. BTW, the Microsoft voices Mike, Mary and Sam are built-in to Windows XP. I understand that Vista has an additional, better sounding voice. I haven't heard it. If you have an earlier version of Windows, or for some reason don't have them on XP, you want to install the SAPI 5.1 package, which you can download from MS. This package includes those three voices, as well as the speech API files that other programs use. Last edited by jbenny; 10-09-2007 at 11:49 PM.