Change default speech to Microsoft Mary

[luke77]

I want to change the default speech from M.S. Sam to Mary.

I downloaded the Speech SDK 5.1, but it didn't help.

Does anyone know how I can change the voice to Microsoft Mary ?

Thanks,

Andy

[e-t-c]

Firstofall - Searching the internet can help too ...

http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/forums/windows-xp/change-default-speech-voice-sam-mary-307617.html

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbrown/archive/2005/04/21/410561.aspx

http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm

cheers

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=10121#additional-information

... etc ...

If you want to get only the Mike and Mary voices redistributable for Windows XP,

download Mike and Mary redistributables (Sp5TTIntXP.exe).

EXTRATIPP: (Freeware & Donationware - when you scroll down there are SAPI & VOICES downloads too ...)

Balabolka © 2006-2011 Ilya Morozov @ RUSSIA & GERMANY

DD: Dec 2011 - ca. 6,5 MB - Multilingual - Installer & Portable Versionen - Freeware

OS: Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

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Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka.

The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file.

The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from

CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files,

customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

The program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI);

it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch.

The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation.

This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words.

The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions.

Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags

inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer

or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously

(at the same way, as lyrics for songs).

Edited December 17, 2011 by e-t-c