Questions tagged [text-to-speech]
Technology that converts written text into human or digitised speech
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Attached ...
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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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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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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 activate text2speech on my windows 8 kindle app?
Is it possible to activate the text-to-speech setting that is available on the kindle on my windows 8 kindle app?
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Balabolka Text to Speech Substitute "Web Links" Pronounciation
The program reads out the entire web address
for example it pronounces the ENTIRETY of "http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/0ac15d76-1491-404a-9bd8-a8401dac0078/"
that's ...
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Why does Microsoft Sam randomly quit talking if given a long body of text to recite?
When given a large amount of text to recite, he stops randomly and does not resume where he left off.
How can I stop this from happening?
OS: Windows XP
Apps: This problem happens in both Wordpad ...
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Error on clicking on Text to Speech tab in Speech properties in Control Panel
When I click on Text to Speech tab in Speech properties I receive error:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech".
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