Natural Voices

[luckyducky777]

(04-10-2018 03:54 PM)midastouch Wrote:  What do you need to use these?

Good question...

[layna61524]

These voices work with Loquendo text to speech software.

The best I could do is to find the download on Pirate Bay. So, unless you use a torrent client, this won't help you.

I don't know how regularly Nuance updates Loquendo software. All I can say is that the version 7 (I believe it's called Director) is fairly new and that is included in this torrent download.

For Pirate Bay, you should use a VPN (virtual private network) so your computer's address is cloaked. Torrents generally take a while so be prepared to leave your computer running while it loads and packages.

Go to the Pirate Bay download here:

Magic Button :

Code:

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https://anonymiz.com/?https%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.org%2Fsearch%2Floquendo%2F0%2F0%2F0
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Maybe whomever is able to download it via torrent will come back and share it on a file share site so more people can access it.

I am not providing a Virus Total scan because I didn't download this software and don't want it. Besides, my computer has been acting like a real b*tch lately and I'm still trouble-shooting the cause.

I hope this helps those of you who downloaded the OP's voice files.


Layna61524

[Lumos]

If one looks inside the page (FTP) linked in the OP here, one sees, besides the voice files:

Code:

[ ]    Engine.exe
[ ]    English.exe
[ ]    Patch.exe
[ ]    SDK.exe
[ ]    spchapi.exe

It appears that the top 2 are Loquendo, and the bottom 3 in that list are most likely needed in order to make it work correctly.
(I cannot say for certain this is 100% correct as I've not had time to do other than check those files, this is what they appear to be though.)

The speech API is often needed for TTS to work, and sometimes also the SDK - and a file named 'patch' is usually pretty obvious, yes ??

Here is the link to that FTP from the OP, repeated:
https://xfx.net/ftp/centinela/voices/new...Play/Docs/

Perhaps someone will try these files out and report back here with results ??
(I'll not get back to them myself for some time, sorry.)

[layna61524]

@smithnowt: You're right; I forgot to add that the files marked English, Spanish and engine are most likely the files needed to make the voices work. Not sure what the SDK file is but hopefully, someone will post the answer if they figure it out.

Layna61524