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Dear reader,

If you have any suggestion or feedback when using MS TTS on Vista or Windows 7 or TTS APIs, this blog is a place you can post your comments about:

1. issues you find when using TTS in current products

2. suggestions you have in mind that you want in next version of the product

I promise I will read and response to each comments. :-))

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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2009
    If this technology were to implement in a manner that's economical, reliable, imagine how many people it could help. Thank you sharing.

  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2009
    Hi, Nektar: Thanks you very much that you raised many detailed feedback. Some are related to Narrator, some are related TTS engine. I will forward your comments about narrator to narrator team to help them thinking on the design. For your comments on TTS, yes, naturalness sounding, pause and break, language coverage etc are what we need to tackle with. For the kit for developers, what kind of kit do you have in mind?  Developing TTS for a new language requires many effort on natural language processing and wave recording. It is not so easy for individual developers yet

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2009
    Hi, movingestimates thanks for sharing your feedback. The technology is easy to be used on Windows Vista and above with SAPI or managed speech API which you can refer to my previous post. what is the "reliable" you mean?

  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    October 12, 2009
    Do you install 32 bit TTS on 64 bit Win7? If so, you need to run the .net app as 32 bit process

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2010
    Thanks for this page. How does one use 32 bit TTS voices on 64 bit windows 7? I can see the list of voices when I run the 32 bit tts properties panel from WindowssysWOW64speechSpeechUXSAPI.cpl. However, I am unable to preview any of the voices. How can preview and set one as default? Thanks

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2010
    Hi, The 32 bit voice should be able to be used in 32 bit program. Have u tried that? if you run 32 bit control panel from windows explorer. %windir%SysWOW64speechSpeechUXsapi.cpl the 32 bit voice should be able to show and speak as well regards Myblog

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2010
    hello could you send me a french vocal for my narator window 7 thanks before henri DOR

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2010
    hi, There is no french TTS on windows 7.

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2010
    Is there a chinese TTS on Window 7. If yes, where can I download the voice

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2010
    I think if you install Win7 with Chinese language pack, you can find Chinese voice.

  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2010
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  • Anonymous
    August 07, 2010
    hi, Henrik: Thanks for the feedbacks Sam, Anna are based on old technology.  You may try some latest server voice here blogs.msdn.com/.../microsoft-server-speech-platform-10-1-released-sr-and-tts-in-26-languages.aspx Let us know your feedback about the quality.