I need to use male voice in SpeechSynthesizer in addition to default Anna voice. I installed some files from Microsoft, and GetInstalledVoices() method says now I have Microsoft Anna, Microsoft Mary, Microsoft Mike and Sample TTS Voice. After I'm trying to set voice
speaker.SelectVoice("Microsoft Mike");
my program throws exception: Cannot set voice. No matching voice is installed or the voice was disabled.
What should I exactly install and how to enable Mike's voice? System is Windows7.
After trying many suggestions from web found working solution:
- install Microsoft Speech Platform SDK (x64) v11.0.
- install Runtime Languages (Version 11) you need.
- do registry changes from the end of this this thread.
- install Microsoft Server Speech Platform Runtime (x64) (! - this is what i was missing).
- and you have to set platform target in build to x64 to use new voices like Helen or ZiraPro
You can get a lot of additional voices from Cepstral: http://www.cepstral.com/en/personal/download
It appears that available voices are the same as CereProc has on offer: https://www.cereproc.com/en/storesapi.
When you download their software you get selected voice registered in Windows, so you can use it with SpeechSynthesizer.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31924110/how-to-install-and-use-additional-voices-in-speechsynthesizer