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• You can add text-to-speech voices to Windows 10 through your PC's Settings app.
• Once you've added a text-to-speech voice to Windows, you can use it in programs like Microsoft Word, OneNote, and Edge.
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Microsoft has a text-to-speech feature built into a number of Windows programs, including Microsoft Office, the Edge web browser, and OneNote.

• Both Windows computers and Macs come with their own built-in speech-to-text utility. On Windows, the built-in voice-to-text conversion program – Speech Recognition – was first included in Windows 7 and has since been a part of every subsequent version of the Windows Operating System. OS X’s onboard speech-to-text utility, aptly dubbed.
• As many of you would know Apple has presented text to speech in the Mac OS for many years even pre-dating Mac OS X. Well, with the release of Mac OS X Lion they have expanded on the available voices. Many of the voices are by default not included in the installation and need to be downloaded on request.

By default, the voices for your computer's current language are already installed. But if you need to install a second language, or if additional voices are released for your primary language, you can install them as well.

The text-to-speech voices for all Microsoft apps are installed in the Settings app. Here's how to find and add them to Windows.

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How to add text-to-speech voices in Windows 10

1. Click the Start button in the bottom-left, and then click the Settings icon, which looks like a gear.

2. In Settings, click 'Time & Language.'

3. In the navigation pane on the left, click 'Language.'

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4. Click 'Add a preferred language' and then scroll through the list until you see the language you want to add. Click it, and then click 'Next.' It'll be installed.

5. After it's installed, select it in the list of languages and click 'Options.'

6. On the language's details page, click 'Download.' This will install the language pack, which includes the voices for this language.

How to choose a voice for text-to-speech in Windows 10

After you've downloaded voices, you can choose which one Windows uses for text-to-speech.

1. While still in the 'Time & Language' section of Settings, click 'Speech' in the left sidebar.

2. Underneath 'Speech language,' make sure it's set to the language you want text-to-speech to use.

3. Underneath 'Voices,' click the 'Choose a voice' drop-down menu and select the voice you want to use by default. You can vary its speed and preview the voice here as well.

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Some programs let you pick a text-to-speech voice that's different from the one the rest of Windows uses.

In Word, for example, click 'Review' and then click 'Read Aloud.' A playback control menu will appear in the top-right of the screen. Click the gear icon to open the Read Aloud settings. Here, you can choose the voice you want to use in Word.

Likewise, the Edge browser has a similar option. When you choose 'Read aloud' from the three-dot menu, 'Voice options' appears at the top of the page. Click it to change voices.

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How To: Adding New Voices For Text To Speech In Mac OS X Lion

As many of you would know Apple has presented text to speech in the Mac OS for many years even pre-dating Mac OS X. Well, with the release of Mac OS X Lion they have expanded on the available voices. Many of the voices are by default not included in the installation and need to be downloaded on request.

The good thing about these additional voices is Apple has not only included a few more novelty voices but they have also included other languages besides English and even other accents within the English Language.

In order to access and download these additional voices simply proceed to the System Preferences and then to the Speech area as highlighted below:

Mac Osx Text Speech Voices For Windows 10

Then, make sure you are in the Text To Speech tab and then click on the system voice to bring down the following drop down menu:

Select ‘Customise’ and the following window will be displayed:

This window displays the voices which are not currently on your system but are available for download.

To play a sample simply highlight one and select play. When you have found a voice you wish to add simply place a tick in the box next to the name as shown in the image above and then press okay and the voice in question will be downloaded through Software Update.

You will be presented with the following message upon request to download:

As you can see you are told the size of the file that will be downloaded. For a voice you may be wondering why is the file size so large. Autotune vst crack torrent.

These new voices are incredibly high quality. You will honestly believe a real person is sitting right next to you when you play them back.

If you still want to install the voice simply press the install button, agree to the license agreement and the download and installation will take place. The new voice will be automatically added and you can select it, once downloaded and installed, without restarting your system.