'System Narrator' in Logos 8

Changing the narrator in Windows 10 doesn't change it at all, and Windows David is terrible. In truth, all of the Microsoft voices are basically bad. But Logos won't even recognize any buy Microsoft David. Is there any way to install a better TTS voice and force Logos to use a different one?

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Dave Colclough

If I remember correctly you need to change the voice in 2 places for Windows 10. 'Settings/Narrator' and 'Control Panel/Text to Speech'. Hopefully the pics below will help (I'm using a additional paid for voice from cereproc.com):

Barnabas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076427#Comment_1076427

Hmmm alright i'll give it a try.

Barnabas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076429#Comment_1076429

Ironically Cereproc's Irish voice is what I had in mind. I don't have the resources right now to pruchase a voice.

Barnabas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076427#Comment_1076427

https://support.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/Synthesizers

I found these but Windows doesn't recognize them.

Dave Colclough

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076433#Comment_1076433

Those look like voice files for particular scientific software speech engines, unfortunately not for the one Windows uses. With Cereproc they supply their own voice files and engine. As good as Cereproc voices are (in comparison to the ones with Windows), they understandably still struggle to sound 'human', especially with certain formatting and the obvious Greek and Hebrew.

Barnabas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076507#Comment_1076507

A close friend of mine decided to dump some cash on me so the narrator thing Is liklely taken care of. Really busy right now. going for Cereproc. I have some minor brain damage which can make study a little difficult (but i can still do it without bnoth the text and sound) and its nice to have the audio for better retention.

Dave Colclough

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076565#Comment_1076565

Hopefully you'll enjoy the new voice and it'll aid you in your retention. If you have any problems getting it working post back here and I'll see if I can help [Y]

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076690#Comment_1076690

Anyone able to tell me which reg key configures this? I need to do it in the registry instead.

Christopher Bucklin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076427#Comment_1076427

Dave, how do you like the voices from cereproc? So they work well with logos? You have a favorite? How much of an improvement are they over the standard system narrator?

Dave Colclough

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076694#Comment_1076694

Anyone able to tell me which reg key configures this? I need to do it in the registry instead.

John, a quick look at my setup suggests the following values are the ones that change (in this case setup with Microsoft's own Hazel voice). Obviously though, be careful and make a backup before directly changing registry values.

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Narrator\NoRoam

Name: SpeechVoice Type: REG_SZ Data: Microsoft Hazel Desktop

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Speech\Voices

Name: DefaultTokenId Type: REG_SZ Data: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-GB_HAZEL_11.0

Josh Gherghel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1076746#Comment_1076746

here is how I did it. It works and using Logos 9.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/11/unlock-all-windows-10-tts-voices-system-wide-to-get-more-of-them/

Kevin A

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1142155#Comment_1142155

here is how I did it. It works and using Logos 9.

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/11/unlock-all-windows-10-tts-voices-system-wide-to-get-more-of-them/

I also enabled these that Josh linked to, Microsoft Eva Mobile (Cortana) and Microsoft Mark Mobile are much better (higher quality) TTS voices.

Reg Files - 4532.Microsoft Eva and Mark Voice Windows 10.zip

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1142161#Comment_1142161

Thanks

Kevin A

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1142759#Comment_1142759

Eva is definitely clearer, maybe not so much Mark.

You have to configure them in Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Speech Recognition -> Advanced Speech Options then under the Text to Speech tab.