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Loading New System Voices for System.Speech
Hi, I am using System.Speech for a Text to Speech project, and I am trying to install new voices.
I installed new system voices by following these instructions:
On any edition of Windows 10, click Start > Settings, and then follow these steps:
Select the Start button, then select Settings > Time & Language > Region & Language.
Select Add a language and choose the language you want from the list. Only languages listed in the table below will have Text-to-Speech capabilities.
After the new language has been installed (this may take a few moments), select it in the Region & Language list, and then select Options.
Under Language options > Speech, select Download.
Restart your computer. The Text-to-Speech voices will be installed when your machine turns back on.
I can see these voices installed in settings. However, these voices don't show up when I use the GetInstalledVoices().VoiceInfo command.
Is there some additional layer of setup I need to do to get System.Speech to recognize these new voices?
Pernille-Eskebo Tech Community
Y'all a bunch of posers tho. Left me hanging.
The answer is that Microsoft has two vocal synthesis APIs, WinRT and SAPI. 3 of the standard Microsoft voices are the SAPI API, the ones you download via system settings are WinRT. System.Speech only works with SAPI voices. This isn't clearly documented anywhere, I actually had to find it on a random stack overflow post, so hopefully posting this will help someone else who runs into the same issue.
- Hello. I'm facing the same problem. May I ask for your final solution? I've tried to install eSpeak and Ekho for more SAPI voices. And in the TTSApp they provides, I could find those new voices, but in my application there are no new voices.
- Well I find that the behavior is different in DotnetCore and DotnetFramework. I could get the Ekho voices in a DotnetFramework program.
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