You might be installing 32-bit voices that are unavailable when using the 64-bit Speech Properties dialog that you normally see on 64-bit Windows. Try using the 32-bit dialog by invoking%windir% sysWOW64 speech SpeechUX SAPI.cpl. Click on the settings button in Acapela voices to access directly to the Android TTS settings or; Go to Android ‘Settings’ and browse to ‘Language and input’ ->Text-to-Speech Settings’. Select ‘Acapela TTS’ in order to enable it among the default engines. Then click on the Acapela TTS settings button and set the voice you want to use. If you are not happy with the default Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David TTS voices available in Windows 10, then you can get third party TTS voices for free or buy. I like TTS (Text To Speech). Windows 7: Adding TTS Voices. Down box to choose a different voice and all the extra voices i install are listed.

Actually I'm using it from Python, but with just os calls like the following: os.system('pico2wave -l it-IT -w voice.wav '+mytext+' ') os. How Do I Uninstall Nokia Suite. system('play -v 0.2 voice.wav tempo -s 0.9') First line creates the audio file and the second just plays it. Please note that for playing I'm using SOX (so I can change some audio parameter), but you can of course use whatever method you wish to play the audio file. Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise 32 Bit Iso here. Pico tts do have an API interface (you can find docs in the sources folder), but you need to create a python wrapper for the C headers. I never did this as for my needs the os calls are just enough.