Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website. SAPI 4 redistributable versions are downloadable for Windows 9x , although no longer from the Microsoft website.
Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary can be used on Windows Vista and later with a third-party program like Speakonia and TTSReader installed on the machine that supports these operating systems; however, the speech patterns differ from the Windows XP versions of these voices. It can also be obtained in non-Chinese versions of Windows 7 or Vista by installing the Chinese language pack. In , Microsoft released the newer Speech Platform compatible voices for Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech for use with client and server applications.
These voices are available in 26 languages [3] and can be installed on Windows client and server operating systems. Speech Platform voices, unlike SAPI 5 voices, are female-only; no male voices are released publicly yet.
The server versions of these voices are available via above mentioned Speech Platform for operating systems earlier than Windows 8. Other voices are available for specific language versions of either Windows 8 or Windows 8. These are the same voices found on Windows Phone 8 , Windows Phone 8. Also with these voices language packs are also available for a variety of voices similar to that of Windows 8 and 8.
None of these voices match the Cortana text-to-speech voice which can be found on Windows Phone 8. In an attempt to unify its software with Windows 10 , all of Microsoft's current platforms use the same text-to-speech voices except for Microsoft David and a few others. All mobile voices have been made universal and any user who downloads the language pack of that choice will have one extra male and female voice per that package.
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Reviewer: Cyan - favorite favorite favorite - March 1, Subject:??? This online tool lets you generate a Microsoft Sam style voice not the exact original that you can play and download easily. Just wait for it to load it may take a minute or so as it's a 2mb piece of software then type your text in the box and click "Speak". You can download the speech by clicking the link that will appear under the "Speak" button.
Old-school text to speech is great fun to play around with. Try testing it on long or hard to pronounce words, use it to narrate your silly YouTube video, post it as a message to a friend's facebook wall - the possibilities are endless.
All thanks goes to kripken for porting the library to JavaScript!
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