Microsoft Text To Speech Windows 10

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Microsoft Sam saying, 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890 times.', followed by a demonstration of a glitch that occurs when the words soi/soy are entered (soi cannot be uppercase in Windows XP or it will say the letters)
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The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are speech synthesizers provided for use with applications that use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-speech voices. Client voices are shipped with Windows operating systems; server voices are available for download for use with server applications such as Speech Server, Lync etc. for both Windows client and server platforms, and mobile voices are often shipped with more recent versions of Windows Phone. Windows 10 also brings the mobile text to speech voices to the desktop starting with the Anniversary Update.

To unlock extra Text to Speech voices in Windows 10, do the following. Open the Registry Editor app. Go to the following Registry key. HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft SpeechOneCore Voices Tokens. See how to go to a Registry key with one click. Here you will see the list of voices installed in your Windows 10. How to Unlock New Text to Speech Voice in Windows 10. Microsoft has a tradition of adding new text-to-speech voices in the new versions of its operating system. Windows Vista presented Anna to the World, which retained even in Windows 7. Windows 8 also introduced some new voices, including David, Zira and Hazel.

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Voices[edit]

Windows 2000 and XP[edit]

Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system.

Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website. Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from Lernout & Hauspie, and available through Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Reader.

There are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of these text-to-speech voices. SAPI 4 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems. While SAPI 5 versions of Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are downloadable only as a Merge Module,^[1] the installable versions may be installed on end users' systems by speech applications such as Microsoft Reader. SAPI 4 redistributable versions are downloadable for Windows 9x, although no longer from the Microsoft website.

Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary can be used on Windows Vista and later with a third-party program (like Speakonia and TTSReader) installed on the machine that supports these operating systems; however, the speech patterns differ from the Windows XP versions of these voices. In addition, LH Michael and LH Michelle can work on Windows 7 and later if Speakonia and the SAPI 4 version of the voices in British English is downloaded.

Windows Vista and 7[edit]

Beginning with Windows Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft Anna is the default English voice. It is a SAPI5-only female voice and is designed to sound more natural than Microsoft Sam.^[2]Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 and later install the Microsoft Anna voice on Windows XP systems for the voice-prompt direction feature. There is no male voice shipping with Windows Vista and Windows 7. A female voice called Microsoft Lili that replaces the earlier male SAPI5 voice 'Microsoft Simplified Chinese' is available in Chinese versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can also be obtained in non-Chinese versions of Windows 7 or Vista by installing the Chinese language pack.

In 2010, Microsoft released the newer Speech Platform compatible voices for Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech for use with client and server applications. These voices are available in 26 languages^[3] and can be installed on Windows client and server operating systems. Speech Platform voices unlike SAPI 5 voices, are female-only, no male voices are released publicly yet.

Windows 8 and 8.1[edit]

In Windows 8, there are three new client (desktop) voices - Microsoft David (US male), Hazel (UK female) and Zira (US female) which sound more natural than the now-eliminated Microsoft Anna. The server versions of these voices are available via above mentioned Speech Platform for operating systems earlier than Windows 8. Unlike Windows 7 or Vista, one cannot use any third-party program for Microsoft Anna because there is no Anna Voice API for download. Other voices are available for specific language versions of either Windows 8 or Windows 8.1.^{[citation needed]}

Windows 10 and later[edit]

In Windows 10, Microsoft Hazel was removed from the US English Language Pack and the Microsoft voices for Mobile (Phone/tablet) are available (Microsoft Mark and Microsoft Zira). These are the same voices found on Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile.

Also with these voices language packs are also available for a variety of voices similar to that of Windows 8 and 8.1. None of these voices match the Cortana text-to-speech voice which can be found on Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 10 Mobile.

In an attempt to unify its software with Windows 10, all of Microsoft's current platforms use the same text-to-speech voices except for Microsoft David and a few others.

Mobile[edit]

Every mobile voice package has the combination of male/female, while most of the desktop voice packages have only female voices. All mobile voices have been made universal and any user who downloads the language pack of that choice will have one extra male and female voice per that package.

A hidden text-to-speech voice in Windows 10 called Microsoft Eva Mobile is present within the system. Users can download a pre-packaged registry file from the windowsreport.com website. Microsoft Eva is believed to be the early voice for Cortana until Microsoft replaced her with the voice of Jen Taylor in most areas.

These voices are updated with Windows to sound more natural than in the original version as seen in the Windows 10 Update.

References[edit]

^Speech SDK 5.1
^Chambers, Rob (August 29, 2006). 'Microsoft Anna - The new TTS voice in Vista'. MSDN Blogs. Microsoft. Retrieved June 26, 2015.
^http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh361572.aspx

External links[edit]

Official website^{[dead link]}

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Text-to-speech from Azure Speech Services is a service that enables your applications, tools, or devices to convert text into natural human-like synthesized speech. Choose from standard and neural voices, or create your own custom voice unique to your product or brand. 75+ standard voices are available in more than 45 languages and locales, and 5 neural voices are available in 4 languages and locales. For a full list, see supported languages.

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Text-to-speech technology allows content creators to interact with their users in different ways. Text-to-speech can improve accessibility by providing users with an option to interact with content audibly. Whether the user has a visual impairment, a learning disability, or requires navigation information while driving, text-to-speech can improve an existing experience. Text-to-speech is also a valuable add-on for voice bots and virtual assistants.

By leveraging Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), an XML-based markup language, developers using the text-to-speech service can specify how input text is converted into synthesized speech. With SSML, you can adjust pitch, pronunciation, speaking rate, volume, and more. For more information, see SSML.

Standard voices

Standard voices are created using Statistical Parametric Synthesis and/or Concatenation Synthesis techniques. These voices are highly intelligible and sound natural. You can easily enable your applications to speak in more than 45 languages, with a wide range of voice options. These voices provide high pronunciation accuracy, including support for abbreviations, acronym expansions, date/time interpretations, polyphones, and more. Use standard voice to improve accessibility for your applications and services by allowing users to interact with your content audibly.

Neural voices

Neural voices use deep neural networks to overcome the limits of traditional text-to-speech systems in matching the patterns of stress and intonation in spoken language, and in synthesizing the units of speech into a computer voice. Standard text-to-speech breaks down prosody into separate linguistic analysis and acoustic prediction steps that are governed by independent models, which can result in muffled voice synthesis. Our neural capability does prosody prediction and voice synthesis simultaneously, which results in a more fluid and natural-sounding voice.

Neural voices can be used to make interactions with chatbots and virtual assistants more natural and engaging, convert digital texts such as e-books into audiobooks and enhance in-car navigation systems. With the human-like natural prosody and clear articulation of words, neural voices significantly reduce listening fatigue when you interact with AI systems.

Neural voices support different styles, such as neutral and cheerful. For example, the Jessa (en-US) voice can speak cheerfully, which is optimized for warm, happy conversation. You can adjust the voice output, like tone, pitch, and speed using Speech Synthesis Markup Language. For a full list of available voices, see supported languages.

To learn more about the benefits of neural voices, see Microsoft’s new neural text-to-speech service helps machines speak like people.

Custom voices

Voice customization lets you create a recognizable, one-of-a-kind voice for your brand. To create your custom voice font, you make a studio recording and upload the associated scripts as the training data. The service then creates a unique voice model tuned to your recording. You can use this custom voice font to synthesize speech. For more information, see custom voices.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is an XML-based markup language that lets developers specify how input text is converted into synthesized speech using the text-to-speech service. Compared to plain text, SSML allows developers to fine-tune the pitch, pronunciation, speaking rate, volume, and more of the text-to-speech output. Normal punctuation, such as pausing after a period, or using the correct intonation when a sentence ends with a question mark are automatically handled.

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All text inputs sent to the text-to-speech service must be structured as SSML. For more information, see Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

Pricing note

When using the text-to-speech service, you are billed for each character that is converted to speech, including punctuation. While the SSML document itself is not billable, optional elements that are used to adjust how the text is converted to speech, like phonemes and pitch, are counted as billable characters. Here's a list of what's billable:

Text passed to the text-to-speech service in the SSML body of the request
All markup within the text field of the request body in the SSML format, except for <speak> and <voice> tags
Letters, punctuation, spaces, tabs, markup, and all white-space characters
Every code point defined in Unicode

For detailed information, see Pricing.

Important

Each Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language character is counted as two characters for billing.

Core features

This table lists the core features for text-to-speech:

Use case	SDK	REST
Convert text to speech.	Yes	Yes
Upload datasets for voice adaptation.	No	Yes*
Create and manage voice font models.	No	Yes*
Create and manage voice font deployments.	No	Yes*
Create and manage voice font tests.	No	Yes*
Manage subscriptions.	No	Yes*

* These services are available using the cris.ai endpoint. See Swagger reference. These custom voice training and management APIs implement throttling that limits requests to 25 per 5 seconds, while the speech synthesis API itself implements throttling that allows 200 requests per second as the highest. When throttling occurs, you'll be notified via message headers.