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Originally Posted by b00kiest
<snip>It was a rude awakening that in windows you have nothing easily set to do TTS and then once you can get it figured out you are left with David and Hazel<snip>
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In Windows 10 there should be many more free MS Voices available to you than just David & Hazel. These 2 possibly date from Windows 7 or 8.
The first thing to do is to install as many of the Win10 Language packs as you're interested in. Your top-right info panel doesn't include your Country but your posts read like you're an English speaker. If so, all these English-dialect Voices can be installed for free:
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Extract from post #2 in this thread:
Voices marked with * are Cortana Speech Assistant voices.
English - GB: Hazel, Susan, George, Sarah*
English - US: Zira, David, Mark, Eva*
English - Canada: Linda, Richard, Eva*
English - Australia: Catherine, James, Matilda*
English - India: Heera, Ravi, Koyal*
English - Ireland: Sean
N.B. Cortana Eva (US) and Cortana Eva (Canada) are stored as separate files so don't assume they are the same thing.
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For detailed instructions, see next 2 posts:
- Installing extra MS Windows 10 Language packs
- Making sure already-installed MS Voices are also available within calibre
Please let me know how you get on especially if the instructions below need clarification.