TTS voices - Captivate or Third Party

What TTS voices, Captivate or Third Party, have you found to sound most human? I have used some of the standard downloaded voices, but I am looking for something a bit more real sounding. Recording audio is not an option at this point in time. Suggestions?

Sorry, I don't, but I'm on the lookout for children's voices. Should anyone find a resource, please let me know. Thanks!
Da Teacher

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Looking for suggestions for commercial, high quality, 3rd party TTS voices. In the Windows world I was a happy Ivona user, but Ivona does not support Apple products. The best OSX TTS voices I've found so far are from Infovox ... better than the built-in TTS voices ... but no where close to Ivona.

There are additional OS X voices that you can download as part of the operating system.
System Preferences > Dictation & Speech > Text to Speech > System Voice > Customize.
Download the addtional voices from the list and then select to use.

ICM Third party softphone with voice and video.

Hi all,
My customer requested to implement video call on the company's web page, directly to the ICM.
I'm thinking of using a third party softphone API to acomplish this, making the CTI OS login transparent to the agent regardless of being a third party softphone.
Anybody knows if this could be done - login in third party softphone?
Thanks in advance.

Russ H wrote:
And taking it a step further, it's also a good idea to avoid manually updating anything mid-project.
You are absolutely right Russ.
I've mistakenly updated FCPX thanks to this nasty little "update all" App Store button I've mechanically reached under the wrong user account, in the middle of a long night. My bad. (Who could be stupid enough to update its Software, on purpose, stuck in the middle of a huge project with approaching deadlines? Nobody I've ever heard of... except me).
Nonetheless Apple update/upgrade soft-warning policy on its pro software is a bit bold, to say the less,
especially since its QA and beta-testing processes seem pretty weak these days.
In my opinion, an update should never manipulate the user data in a destructive way but rather propose to work on a copy of it (as I've explained on another post: part of your libraries backups seem to have been upgraded as well with this update. Regarding the size of video files and complexity of video projects, the number of hard-drives involved, backups is not always as simple as having a time-machine running on the background even though we'd like to).

Add TTS Voice To Windows 7 and Set AS Default

We have tested Voices from a number of vendors and all work properly as far as being listed in the TTS speech section of the Control Panel and selectable as a system default with Windows XT and Windows Server 2008. There is a work around that solves an issue with Vista.
Windows 7 64 bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 require complex entries in the Speech Token section of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry. We have not found a single Voice installer that makes the correct entries in this registry nor have we located anyone who knows the details of what is required. There is an extensive description of the registry entries in an MSDN paper for SAPI 5.4 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee125663(VS.85).aspx), but it doesn't cover all of the entries that are used by Microsoft Anna. All of the SAPI 5+ Voices that we tested work properly on Windows 7 except for not being listed in the Control Panel TTS Speech section. Unfortunately, there is no known means of setting the default system Voice without it being in the Control Panel TTS listing..
A second issue is that many of the TTS speech vendors require that one purchase their application program in addition to one or more compatible Voices. You can purchase the Voices separately, but they cannot be installed. "stand alone". There is an obvious business reason for this limitation, but it greatly increases the cost.
We use Micosoft's SAPI 5.1 SDK to test the Voices and to link them with our application programs. There is an interesting sample program called TTSAppVB that can be used to locate all the Voices that are installed on one's computer. You can select a Voice of interest, change a number of parameters, and read textbox data. You cannot use this program to set the system default Voice.
Robbie

By trying the method outlined above, I was able to change the default voice... Until I went back to the Control Panel>Speech Recognition applet afterwards. All I saw there was the same Microsoft Anna default voice, which to me was no good, so I did some
digging on my own, and found this bit of information:
While looking for "Microsoft Mike" within the registry (not visible in the standard TTS config window, but visible in the WoW64 version), I found an entry in this branch of the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens
While the entry for Microsoft Anna was in a completely different branch:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens
Now, I'm probably braver (read: stupider) than many folks, and I am NOT
suggesting this fix for anyone else, but it worked for me. Here's what I did (right after the usual warnings about mucking about in the registry):
WARNING!!!
The registry contains essential configuration values that can adversely effect the operation of your computer, if not handled correctly, and with care. If you make the wrong changes in the registry, you can potentially do
IRREPARABLE damage to your computer, requiring a wipe/reinstall of your operating system, and potential loss of important documents or files. If you're not
100% confident that you know what you're doing, then don't do it. You HAVE been warned.
1.) Open the TTS config applet, as described above (%windir%\SysWOW64\speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl), and select a voice from the list other than Microsoft Anna. Note the name (e.g "Microsoft Mike", or one of any 3rd party voices you may have installed).
2.) Open regedit (see warning, above!) and search for the voice's name (e.g. "Microsoft Mike", or whatever). Your first "found" location for that string value SHOULD be at the branch I mentioned, above. If not, keep searching.
3.) Once found in the correct branch, right-click on the "Tokens" folder, just above your current location, in the nav panel, and click "Export". Save the file in a convenient location.
4.) Open that newly created .reg file by navigating to it in Explorer, right-clicking on the file, and selecting "Edit".
5.) Did you close Regedit yet? No? Good. Now follow the same steps above, this time looking for "Microsoft Anna". The correct branch that you want will be very similar or identical to the second registry branch I mentioned, above. Again, export
the Tokens folder to a convenient place, and "edit" this one, as well. In this file, the first line of registry entry information should look like this:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens]
6.) Select everything except the square brackets, but don't copy it yet.
7.) Switch to the other file, and highlight that same first entry line EXCEPT for the square brackets. Hit CTRL-C, CTRL-H, CTRL-V (Copy, Replace, Paste), then switch back to the other file, make sure the necessary text is still selected, then copy that.
Then back to the first file again, paste the new line into the "replace" textbox, and click "Replace All". Save the file.
8.) In explorer, select the file you just changed, and merge it back into the registry. This will "Add" all of the voices that were on the WoW64 version of the TTS config applet to the "regular" config applet. Please note that you "MAY"
get a warning that not everything was properly merged into the registry. If you get this warning, removing the information about Microsoft Anna should fix the issue quite nicely.
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So I know it's been a couple years, but I was using this as reference to try and add the new Speech Platform v11 voices to the win 7 TTS options. The above DOES work, but the details are slightly off. Technically to get them to work I had to add two sets
of registry entries. The method above got more than just Anna to list in TTS panel that you can access via control panel, but it did NOT add them to the one launched via SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl which would cause the computer to go back to Anna any
time TTS was used. The solution was to look deeper in the registry. The v11 voices are added to the registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices AND
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices. Said tree contained the proper token entries for each voice. Now the fun part:
0. Pre-requisite: Download and Install Speech Platform Runtime Languages from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27224 and the Speech Platform v11 from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27225. There are many voices
to choose from, although en-US ZiraPro and en-GB Hazel are both good English options. Once you have selected voices, installed the Platform and voices proceed to making them work:
1. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices Click the Tokens folder and export. Save this file to your desktop as voices1.reg so it will be easy to find and line up with later steps.
2. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices
select Tokens and again export it, again to the desktop. Call it voices2.reg.
3. EDIT (right click, select edit) voices1.reg. In notepad use the Replace function and replace
\Speech Server\v11.0\ with \Speech\ (Just replace that section, the rest will remain intact and entries with "[ ]" around them should read as such:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\*[*= some entries WILL be nested in folders below this. The key is making sure that the patch is \Speech\ and not \Speech Server\v11.0\).
Save and close.
4. EDIT (right click, select edit) voices2.reg. In notepad use the Replace function and replace
\Speech Server\v11.0\ with \Speech\ (Just replace that section, the rest will remain intact and entries with "[ ]" around them should read as such:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\*[*= some entries WILL be nested in folders below this. The key is making sure that the patch is \Speech\ and not \Speech Server\v11.0\). Save and close.
5. Merge both of the files we just edited into the registry by double-clicking them and answering yes when prompted.
6. Reboot computer and enjoy it's new voices.
Tested this on my laptop as well, slightly easier since its x86, it only involves the first registry file as Wow6432Node only exists on x64 architecture.
DISCLAIMER: This method works with the MS Speech Platform Server v11.0 voices available for download. The method is likely similar for adding purchased and third-party voices as well, but locating the voice tokens that you need to copy into the MS default
tokens will be up to you.
This worked for me! Sort of... New problem, though. Attempting to use WSR Macros to respond using TTS won't work. For example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<speechMacros>
<command>
<listenFor>Hello computer </listenFor>
<speak> hello user </speak>
</command>
Throws an error with the information:
<speak> executor failure!
text: hello user
speakFlags: "(null)" (0x00000010)
This looks to me as though there's some sort of command structure missing from Hazel (the Server TTS voice I downloaded). Can anyone offer me any pointers?
EDIT: Also applies to any other downloadable voice I try. Anna still works when swapped back to. Hazel doesn't; Cepstral's Millie and Damien also fail. All can narrate quite happily.

A "VZW free msg" says a phone on my account "made a charge with a third-party vendor ... ."

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*611 from your device works as well.
That third party stuff is probably "cramming" Verizon just got hit with this practice which is illegal.
The law states you can call Verizon up and have them place a permenant block on third party services.
They cannot refuse and you do not have to pay for them.
Notify the FCC http://www.FCC.gov or the Federal Trade Commission http://www.FTC.gov
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