Ventrilo text-to-voice

Sakebomb

Does anyone know of a way to change the default, robot-like text-to-speech voice on ventrilo?
When I go into the settings, I see there is the option for default or "microsoft sam", which both sound exactly the same to me.
I imagine Id have to download and install a new voice package or something maybe?

Sakebomb

any ideas?

uean

Yup, new voice package, but I did some searching for the same reason and discovered that the ones available cost a buttload of money to get.

Vista came with Microsoft Anna or something (I forget her name)... you might be able to find that for free.

Anyway, sorry Im not much help but Im interested in what this thread turns out too.

Sakebomb

uean wrote: »

Yup, new voice package, but I did some searching for the same reason and discovered that the ones available cost a buttload of money to get.

Vista came with Microsoft Anna or something (I forget her name)... you might be able to find that for free.

Anyway, sorry Im not much help but Im interested in what this thread turns out too.

Yeah, its really hard to find info on this. I know its possible because theres a cybercafe in Austin that has the computer voice from Star Trek as the defualt for the ventrilo clients there. I asked one of the employees about it and he just looked at me all deer-in-a-headlights. Maybe I'll just go there one night with a thumb drive and see if I can snatch it......

Hahnsoo1

Ventrilo uses the default list of Text-To-Voice options on your Windows installation. I have something like four of them on my list. LH Michael, LH Michelle (LH stands for Lernout and Hauspie or something like that), Mike, and Mary are the ones that I have. The LH ones were installed with Office 2003. There are some links online for the Microsoft ones, although you can install the Microsoft ones as optional components for Office XP.

I'm told that the bytecool.com link has a trojan in it, so avoid that.