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Speech Technology / Re: Installing Voices

« on: September 30, 2012, 02:21:20 pm »

I'm getting used to Microsoft Anna, but I do wish there was the choice of a British voice. I don't have any animated face in my Ultra Hal, no face at all, nor even a mouth. Have I installed the program wrongly?

I'm not too bothered by the absence of a character, as I usually run the program from the system tray, with just the little ear icon, with it set to read anything I 'copy'; but I would very much like a British accent voice. The ones I downloaded were free, and I'd rather avoid paying for one if possible. A voice I really like is the BrowseAloud Daniel one. Unfortunately, BrowseAloud works on very few sites; I think the sites have to pay for the priviledge. If I could get a free or at least a cheap voice similar to Daniel and which worked with Ultra Hal, I'd be a very happy bunny.

Am I doing something wrong in installing the voices? If I try anything but Anna, I get a message saying that the program has stopped working and Windows is checking for a solution. After this another box comes up say that the program needs to close and Windows will inform me of a solution. It never does.

Please help, I've nothing against US voices, but infinitely prefer UK ones. Thanks.
PS will I have to do the capcha (sp?) verification every time I post?

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Speech Technology / Re: Installing Voices

« on: September 27, 2012, 02:57:04 pm »

This is my first post. I'm using the free version of Ultra Hal and the only voice which works is Microsoft Anna. I read that sapi 5 voices don't work on Windows 7, so I downloaded some free sapi 4 voices with UK accents. But I can't find them in the software even though they installed onto the pc. If I try to use any sapi 5 (apart from ms Anna), Ultra Hal crashes.

I really want this to work because I get nasty bouts of labyrinthitis which makes it impossible for me to read: everything jiggles up and down.

Please help someone.