Re: Homeseer and Text to Speech

[geraint@xxxxxxx]

I found a site which had the characters such as the wizard, the
flying saucer, the bouncer etc, but these were just the graphical
characters. What i'm after is the different VOICES, so that it won't
be good 'ol SAM which is far too robotic sounding for me.

Regards
Geraint.

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Brian G. Reynolds"
<brian.g.reynolds@n...>
wrote:
> I had downloaded a whole load of the Voice controlled Microsoft
items.
>
> There is the Wizard, a Flying Saucer, a Robot all of which are
voice
> controlled and can do the text-voice bit as well of read out
events, is this
> the sort of thing you are after?
>
> Buggered if I can remember what they are/were called! I had
downloaded loads
> of them but now cannot find them!
>
> If this is what you are after I will have a better look.
>
> B.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geraint@a... [mailto:geraint@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: 04 November 2001 20:29
> > To: ukha_d@y...
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Homeseer and Text to Speech
> >
> >
> > Evening All.
> >
> > Just got round to finally playing with Homeseer, and I don't know
> > how I survived without it. Lovely package.
> >
> > Anyway, I love the way it will talk to you about the events etc,
but
> > I hate the voice that's installed - Microsoft SAM ! yuk !
> >
> > I'm running XP Pro, but have no other voices. Anyone have a link
to
> > some differing ones ? I've tried searching on Microsoft, but it
> > gives me lists of how to switch on the text-to-speech, not
> > downloadable extras.
> >
> > As always, many thanks.
> >
> > Regards
> > Geraint.
> >
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