RE: RE: MS TTS Voices for Vista

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm... not sure it would be wise for me to post up the MSI's publicly,
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questionable legality vis-a-vis copyright & all that...

It's fairly easy to modify them yourself though.. You have to get hold
of a tool which can edit MSI files. MS have a free one you can download
called ORCA, which is a part of the Windows Platform SDK. The whole SDK
is a big download, but if you go to the web install page:
http://tinyurl.com/m3nld go through the
WGA check, download and run the
1.2MB setup file appropriate for your machine (PSDK-x86.exe in my case),
this will run an install wizard which will let you selectively install
individual components. In the custom install option you can deselect
everything apart from the "Microsoft Windows Installer SDK"

When that is installed, right-click on the AT&T voices MSI file, and
there will be a new option on the context menu: "Edit with ORCA"
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select this.

When the MSI is open in ORCA, browse down to the line: LaunchCondition
in the left-hand listpane, then in the right pane, edit the 3rd line
down an append this text to it: " OR (VersionNT = 502) OR
(VersionNT=600)"  (exclude the quotes of course...)

Save that MSI, then run that instead of the original, and it should all
work fine!

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Rob Iles
> Sent: 03 July 2007 02:10
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RE: MS TTS Voices for Vista
>
> Paul,
>
> Well done on answering your own question :) (Seriously, I mean it!)
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> Are you able to share the modified MSI, or, at least, share the
> instruction
> on how to modify it for vista install?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob.
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> On 7/2/07, Paul Gordon <paul@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   In case anyone else is interested in this, I discovered that
the
> AT&T
> > Natural voices work perfectly in both Vista and Windows 2003
server,
> > once the MSI is modified to allow the installer to run...
> >
> > I now have a *far* nicer, proper English high quality voice for
> > Homeseer.
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> > From: Paul Gordon
> > Sent: 26 June 2007 15:59
> > To: UKHA Group
> > Subject: MS TTS Voices for Vista
> >
> > I'm a bit bored with Microsoft Anna, which appears to be the only
> voice
> > installed with Vista...
> >
> > Anyone know if there are others available which OK with Vista? -
will
> > any that works in XP work in Vista too?
> >
> > English voices are what I'm after really. Naturally free ones
would
> be
> > preferred, but I'm not averse to paying a reasonable sum...
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
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