Cepstral Voices: Cepstral has a large catalog of high-quality TTS voices that are easy to install. ScriptVOX Studio will automatically detect installed voices so you can begin assigning that unique voice to your characters right away. Microsoft Mike and Mary TTS Engines Installs these additional SAPI 5 voices onto your computer. For Windows XP only. SpeechFull.exe 7.0m bytes March 2007 Microsoft TTS Engines - Full Package Installs the Mike, Mary, and Sam voices, plus the SAPI 5.1 core components. For Windows 98, ME, or 2000.

Check this out, from 5/2007 'Microsoft does not provide additional speech engines (voices), but a number of third-party products are available that support the new Microsoft Speech API. For information on these products, visit the following Microsoft Web site: ' I'm not sure any of the 3rd party products are new or if they even work. One other thread I read said once you install trials of TTS, you get additional voices. I see CoolSpeech is shareware with a 14 day trial. Corel rave portable. Worth a shot to install after CoolSpeech? Edit- keep in mind CoolSpeech is supported through XP:(.

My son's curriculum has a text to speech option using windows narrator in Windows 7. Microsoft Anna cuts too many words short and mispronounces many words and does not take appropriate pauses while reading. I have tried to download many additional voices to be able to select them within the program but they never show up in the control panel not in the curriculum's 'select voice' drop down box. I do not have the option to extract the voices in the directory that MS Anna is said to be saved in.

Has this issue been solved. Is there a way for me to get additional voices in Window 7??? Installing a third party program is not an option unless it allows the voices to be used in Narrator as this is what the program uses. ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***. Since Windows Vista Beta 1, they switched from microsoft sam to anna and which remains unchanged in Windows 7. What I cannot understand is why people are even having this problem with Windows 7 in the first place, led alone windows vista (I know it's not mentioned but whatever). There are tons of free voices available but they are either SAPI 4 voices that are not compatible with narrator or the free SAPI 5 voices that only work on Windows XP aside from LH Michael and LH Michelle which also work in vista but you must have office xp or 2003 or Microsoft reader (from 2011) to get them to work.

Those voices would appear in Windows 7 narrator but because of their compatibility problems with Windows 7 and later they cannot be used. Microsoft has addressed this issue in Windows 8 when the user interface was a piece of ****. Windows 8 is for tablets, I refuse to install it on a nontouchscreen laptop. But Windows 8 has more natural voices, and a selection of a male, british female, and female voice. There are deffinately voices that will show up in Windows 7's narrator and will work but they are 30 day trials, like IVONA and Cepstral. But those voices should be appearing in Windows 7, so either your windows 7 narrator installation is broken or you need to reinstall the operating system.

The only narrator version that I absolutely know restricts you of using any othe voice other than the now diseased Microsoft sam was Windows XP. Even if you installed Mike, Mary, LH Michael, the voices compatible, every SAPI 5 voice created would not appear in the list which annoyed me. I did find a registry hack to change the voice to whatever I wanted eventually, but it was very complex to change the voice, and you should never edit the registry without knowing what you are doing, because if you accidentally tamper with the wrong part of the registry, either your program won't work anymore, or, in the worst case, your operating system will be unbootable and you will have to reinstall it. XP was the only amount of pain I had finding voice lacks in narrator. Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 all addressed that issue after that problem where people were complaining. As for why Microsoft, they should be making more of their own voices to ship with later versions of Windows or as Windows Updates.