Questions tagged [text-to-speech]
Technology that converts written text into human or digitised speech
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How to install Azure Cognitive Services Speech from source
I want to install Azure Cognitive Services Speech SDK in Python. On a Macbook, I can run:
python3 -m pip install azure-cognitiveservices-speech
and it works.
On an iMac, the same command throws:
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How to import and exchange a macOS Personal Voice?
macOS 14 (Sonoma) introduced Personal Voice, the ability to create a model of one's voice to be used with Live Speech accessibility feature (text-to-speech synthesis).
The training involves recording ...
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Is there a way to use narrator voices in the Text-To-Speech voices
Given:
Windows 11 Pro
Is there a way to use the Natural voices in Narrator to TTS (Text-To-Speech)?
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Custom Text-To-Speech Narrator voices for Windows Screen Reader
I've been messing around a bit with TorToiSe TTS a bit recently and have realized that Windows 11 has a built-in screen reader function for people with vision impairment. I was wondering if there was ...
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Where does ClipChamp save the audio file created by the TTS feature?
I use ClipChamp for my personal video editing and, oftentimes, I use its text-to-speech (TTS) feature.
When I create the audio files for the video I'm current editing, it works great.
However, when I ...
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Read chinese document in Cantonese instead of Mandarin in Microsoft Word?
Before July 2022, the Microsoft word "Read Aloud" function will read all "Chinese Hong Kong SAR" documents in Cantonese. However, after July 2022, all documents in "Chinese ...
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How to stop chrome from reading text selected?
Chrome reads aloud the text selected by accident, the sudden voice frightening me. Can we turn off this feature? Badly needed on Both mobile and desktop platform.
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Can't read text in text to speech tool for a protected pdf
I am using natural reader for reading purpose, recently unlocked my protected pdf file from Splitpdf online password remover software. Extracted pdf doesn't have the language I expected.
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How to make text-to-speech speak in both of my languages?
I use Microsoft Narrator because I'm vision impaired.
I've configured it to speak with the voice "Microsoft Mark - English" but I have also installed "Microsoft Ivan - Bulgarian". ...
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"Speak Cells on Enter," not showing in Excel Options -> Quick Access Toolbar -> All Commands
Where is, "Speak Cells on Enter?
Hopefully the attached screenshot says it all. "Speak Cells on Enter," is not showing up in Excel Options -> QAT -> All Commands. Anything I need ...
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macos: How do you read the accessibility's speech rate from terminal?
I'm doing this to change a value
plutil -convert json ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist -o - | python -c "import json, sys;d=json.load(sys.stdin);[x.__setitem__(-1, $1) for ...
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How can I save Edge read aloud file for offline usage? [closed]
Edge browser has this read aloud feature, It reads text from any web page you want with a natural voice (there are robotic voice options too)
but this feature doesn't work offline. Is there any ways (...
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Annotate "read aloud" in Edge browser
The new MS Edge browser has quite a good "read aloud" feature.
Sometimes the accent (or exclamation) on some lines don't fall on exactly the right word/syllable.
I tried making words bold in ...
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Record text to speech audio
I want to generate an audio file given a text, epub or pdf file. As I don't know any program to do this on the computer I'm trying to record the audio of a program I use in the phone to listen to ...
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Windows 10 speaker sound (voice) to text?
I understand that I can voice control Windows 10, as well as I can create "voice to text" (dictate). Is there a way to simply display the speaker sound (in this very case my Spanish teacher ...
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Microsoft Read Aloud stops when minimized
Is there a way to keep the reading of Microsoft documentation using its read aloud feature even when minimizing or switching between windows? I think its a bit obnoxious that a use case of moving ...
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Option to allow MS Excel to speak cells while I type in another application
I would like to use MS Excel's "Speak cells" capability to read me the contents of some cells, so I can enter the data into another application (Google Chrome). When I click "speak cells" in excel, it ...
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What is the proper way of editing com.apple.speech.voice.prefs.plist
I want to edit that file programmatically, to toggle between the Dutch Siri voice and the American Siri voice.
I tried doing the following in bash
defaults write com.apple.speech.voice.prefs ...
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I accidentally corrupted a plist file belonging to the speech synthesis server, how do I fix it?
I was trying to write an AppleScript that would recognize the language of a selected text, and then set the speech synthesis voice accordingly and then let my Mac speak the text out loud.
This is how ...
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How do I add 3rd party voices to Narrator in Windows 10?
I'm looking for the best method to change the existing text-to-speech voice in Narrator to a 3rd party SAPI 5 voice I installed for text-to-speech programs.
Information about this has been very ...
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Balabolka doesn't show any of installed voices
I'm using a x64 Windows 10 version, then I installed a balabolka TTS software along with IVONA voices and everything went well until the system did some updates then balabolka no longer recognized any ...
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Unable to select English (UK) speech in Windows 10 Enterprise
I have a Windows 10 Enterprise machine where
Country or region is set to United Kingdom
Languages includes English (United Kingdom)
But still the only speech language available is English (United ...
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How can I record a speech synthesizer reading a webpage?
I would like to have a speech synthesizer that can convert HTML text to speech recorded in a standard audiobook format.
I would prefer to do this under Linux, but can use Windows if need be.
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Text-to-speech send as the "virtual mic"
first of all - I'm disabled person and I can not talk.
I'm searching a way to make my life a bit easier.
Is there a way to find some text-to-speech software and set its output as a virtual mic? I ...
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is it possible to change immersive reader’s text-to-speech maximum reading speed?
Okay, so I know you can do this on a Mac, but I'd like to change the default maximum that immersive reader can speak. Is there a way to do this? FWIW, immersive reader is a windows text to speech ...
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Change maximum speaking rate in windows (or balabolka)
sorry if this is potentially the wrong place (feel free to tell me where I should move it). I'm on a mac running windows 10 through bootcamp.
I use a text to speech program called balabolka:
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How to get all SAPI 5 English (and other languages) voices for Windows 10
Already looked into other similar questions and the answers did not produce the desired result. For example, one of the suggested solutions provided this link. However, did not allow for more than 1 ...
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Text-to-speech in GoldenDict
I know how to add text-to-speech feature to GoldenDict in Linux, but I searched everywhere for a solution for Windows, and found nothing.
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Applescript - Customize text-to-speech pronunciation of Chinese characters
I would like to change the default pronunciation of certain Chinese characters and phrases using Applescript. This would be an improvisation of the suggestion given by @JRobert over here.
The basic ...
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Firefox narrate (text to speech) not showing all voices
In version 49, Firefox added a text-to-speech function to its reader mode. On Windows it works well with Microsoft-provided voices (namely Microsoft Zira Desktop or Microsoft David Desktop), but other ...
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Switching from Mac to Windows 10 — Text-to-Speech service integration
Apple's tight integration of POSIX-compliant file paths and a command line interface, and their historically strong hardware and manufacturing standards have had me on the Mac platform for years. ...
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macos: How do you change the accessibility's speech rate so that it's faster than the default maximum?
This is what I'm kind of looking for, but it only works in the terminal. Is there a defaults write command that allows you to change the speech rate?
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Looking for text to speech in Windows 10. Suggestions?
I just moved from Mac to Windows 10. I'm used to right-clicking on an article's text and having the option to have the text read aloud to me. I have not found a way to do this in Windows 10. Cortana ...
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Foxit Reader, highlight text that is read by text-to-speech feature
I use Foxit Reader to have my documents read for me by using
Ctrl+Shift+B to start reading
Ctrl+Shift+P to pause reading
Ctrl+Shift+E to end reading
I was wondering if there is an option that ...
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How to enable Microsoft Eva (Cortana's voice) on Windows 10?
I really like to know how I can enable Microsoft Eva (Cortana's voice) on Windows 10? so I can use it as Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice, since that voice is already available on Windows 10.
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How to redirect text-to-speech output to microphone input in Windows?
I have a lot of social anxiety involving my voice and would like to reply back to people in Skype/TeamSpeak/Discord. Using text chat isn't always an option because the people I talk to don't often ...
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Get more Microsoft text-to-speech voices
I am using Windows 10 and want to get more voices for Microsoft at the moment I only have two options: Microsoft Hazel and Microsoft Zira.
Does anyone know how I can get more options?
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Unable download speech language in Windows 10
I want the English UK speech language in my Windows 10 PC in order to make Cortana work.
The display language English UK got downloaded, but the speech and handwriting languages options are showing ...
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How to configure Spanish Speech under MS Windows 7 English
I need to get working Spanish Speech Recognition under clean MS Windows 7 Pro English.
I found some links but it is not what I need as I see...
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/set-speech-...
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Using Omnipage 19 convert to MP3 functionality, can you utilize control sequences?
Basically; Omnipage can convert things like PDF's to MP3 Audio using a Text to Speech engine. The engine I think its using to do this is Realspeak Solo v4.0:
I want to use control sequences to ...
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How do you add the Microsoft Hazel text-to-speech voice back to Windows 10?
I have had the US version of Windows: previously 8.1 and now 10. In 8.1, Microsoft supplied three text-to-speech voices: Zira, David, and Hazel. Hazel is UK voice and is now missing from Windows 10. ...
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Installing new Text-To-Speech languages on Windows 7 32bit Home Premium
I've been hoping to install a Spanish Text-To-Speech voice for use with a vb.Net program I'm creating.
I've downloaded MSSpeech_TTS_es-ES_Helenafrom http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details....
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Convert text in PowerPoint 2011 to MP3 audio? [closed]
I know it's technically impossible to convert PowerPoint to MP3s. What I really want is to have a speech synthesizer create an MP3 file with at least the key points from each PowerPoint slide.
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Text-to-Speech Fadeout (BUG) --- RE:sound card hardware, windows TTS engine or controlling apps
Problem: Applications that use Text-To-Speech (TTS) engine cause the speech to fadeout mid sentence. Reads current sentence of text then fades out after about 1-2 seconds only to return at the ...
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How can you make OS X's say command speak IPA characters?
I have about 200 lines of Beowulf which a few friends of mine and I rendered into International Phonetic Alphabet about a year and a half ago. At the time, one of the tools we used to check the ...
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OSX text-to-speech: key words are badly synthetise in French. How to overcome?
OSX has a great Text to Speech (TTS) feature, but I noticed some limitations.
I set OSX 10.9.2 in French with French TTS voices. The words "pages", "user", and pseudo-word "fire" for example are not ...
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How to manually install text-to-speech voice packages in OS X?
it's nice to have the text-to-speech voice in OS X. I can easily read and listen to two articles at the same time (my "super" brain works that way)!
I am wondering tho, where is the voice packages ...
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Highlight text and have it read back to me in Windows 7? [duplicate]
On my Mac, I can highlight text, hit a keyboard command, and it reads the selected text aloud. Is there an analogue for Windows 7? I've tried enabling Narrator... but it's overkill; it seems to read ...
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Mac OSX Text to Speech Batch
I have 300 English text files that I want to make into mp3 files to listen to as and when.
Is there a method, that I could use so that my Mac will batch text to speech the files to mp3 using a ...
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Have PDF text read out loud [closed]
I need a program that can read the text in PDF documents out loud, and have basic functionality such as pause/resume, change speed of reading, and it must highlight the word or sentence being red. I'...
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