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There are numerous voices included in the narrator pack, such as Microsoft David, Microsoft Zira, Microsoft Mark, and in earlier editions, Microsoft Hazel. [2] [3] In Windows 11, the Narrator app was redesigned and new natural voices were added. [4] The app is available in both Dark and Contrast Themes. [4]
None of these voices match the Cortana text-to-speech voice which can be found on Windows Phone 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 10 Mobile. 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.
The first version of SAPI was released in 1995, and was supported on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51.This version included low-level Direct Speech Recognition and Direct Text To Speech APIs which applications could use to directly control engines, as well as simplified 'higher-level' Voice Command and Voice Talk APIs.
During this time, developer Glen Gordon started working on the code, ultimately taking over its development when Oppermann was hired by Microsoft in November 1994. Shortly afterwards, in January 1995, JAWS for Windows 1.0 was released. A new revision of JAWS for Windows is released about once a year, with minor updates in between.
A prototype speech recognition Aero Wizard in Windows Vista (then known as "Longhorn") build 4093.. At WinHEC 2002 Microsoft announced that Windows Vista (codenamed "Longhorn") would include advances in speech recognition and in features such as microphone array support [8] as part of an effort to "provide a consistent quality audio infrastructure for natural (continuous) speech recognition ...
CereProc voices can be deployed on different operating systems and on different types of devices. CereProc desktop voices are compatible with Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X. They install as system voices and are able to be used by other speech-enabled applications.
Baker had described Voiceverse's service as allowing people to "create customized audiobooks, YouTube videos, e-learning lectures, or even podcasts with your favorite voice all without the hassle of additional legal work," which critics noted raised concerns about potentially replacing professional voice actors with AI. [28]
A stack of dilated casual convolutional layers used in WaveNet [1]. In September 2016, DeepMind proposed WaveNet, a deep generative model of raw audio waveforms, demonstrating that deep learning-based models are capable of modeling raw waveforms and generating speech from acoustic features like spectrograms or mel-spectrograms.