Hindi TTS in Captivate

Hi,
I am using Adobe Captivate 5.5.
There is a requirement to have background voice in Hindi, Bangla, Vietnamese, Arabic, French in order to cater to different clients.
Checking in Loquendo and Neospeech, I am able to find TTS only for Arabic and French (Canadian).
I want TTS for other languages (Hindi, Bangla, Vietnamese). I could not locate any useful freewares in googling. Please suggest how to get a good TTS for these languages.
with thanks and regards,
Krishna

Hi, I am aware of VTML tags, and I use them myself. When I have 80 slides in my project with TTS and I want the entire project to have the same speed TTS, which is slower than the default speed, do I still have the put VTML tags on every slide? In general, the TTS is too fast for non-native speakers. I would like to globally change the speed, or at the very least on a project level.
Von: Sreekanth_S [email protected]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. November 2013 17:18
An: Scharfer, Ryan
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