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A World of Text-to-Speech Voices

CoolSpeech 5.0 supports all SAPI4-compliant (Speech Application Programming Interface) voices, and CoolSpeech 6.0 supports both SAPI4- and SAPI5-compliant voices! For example, you can download a favorite female voice like Mary, download your mother tongue from over 11 languages, or anything else you want! We have collected some voices from the Internet for you. They are available for FREE download below.

CoolSpeech 5.0 Users:
After installing new voices, you should restart CoolSpeech and click the Rescan button on the Speech Properties window in order to update your voice database. (See Figure 1.)

FREE TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES
Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engines for SAPI4
     Mary, Mike, Sam and More (7.3MB)  Hot!

Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engines for SAPI5
     Microsoft Mary, Mike and Sam 5.0 (68MB)  Hot!

CMU Kal Diphone Voice for SAPI5
     CMU Kal Diphone Voice (2.61MB)
          Usage: Unzip to a folder and run setup.bat.
          For more information, visit Flite Home.

L&H TruVoice TTS Engines for SAPI4
     American English (0.99MB)  Hot!
     British English (2.54MB)  Hot!
     Dutch (2.58MB)
     French (2.24MB)
     German (2.18MB)
     Italian (1.97MB)
     Japanese (3.00MB)
     Korean (3.03MB)
     Portuguese (2.39MB)
     Russian (2.85MB)
     Spanish (2.36MB)

Listen to some Microsoft and L&H voices for SAPI4:  American English British English (Female) British English (Male) Mary (1 of 5) Mike (1 of 5) Sam Male Whisper Robot (1 of 6)

Some voices are also installed by default with certain software programs:
* Microsoft Sam 5.0 is also shipped with Windows XP.
* L&H Michael and Michelle 5.0 are shipped with Win 2000 and Office XP.
* Microsoft TTS 4.0 voices are also shipped with Encarta 99 and higher.


COMMERCIAL TEXT-TO-SPEECH ENGINES
Cepstral TTS Voices for SAPI5
     Buy Cepstral TTS Voices from Cepstral LLC  (free test listen available)
     (Only $29.99 each, very high voice quality. Highly recommended!)

AT&T Natural Voices for SAPI4 and/or SAPI5
     Buy Natural Voices from HomeSeer, an AT&T-licensed distributor:
     Choose from a Complete List of Natural Voices  (free test listen available)
     Choose the Mike and Crystal Voices Only  (free test listen available)

Digalo Text-to-Speech Engine (Crash after trial expired, details)

Elan Speech Engine

Eloquent Technology ETI-Eloquence

IBM ViaVoice Outloud (Good voices, 90-day demo)

Related Links:

CoolSpeech 5.0: The Text-to-Speech Player for Windows
TextSound 2.0: Batch Convert Text to WAV and Other Audio Files
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"We chose CoolSpeech as our Smart Choice because it provides the best speech quality overall." - Cal Clinchard @ SmartComputing Magazine.  More Comments
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