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Microsoft Support
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Download languages and voices for Immersive Reader, Read Mode, and Read Aloud - Microsoft Support
Free Text-to-Speech languages are available for download from Open Source provider eSpeak. These languages work on Windows 7, but some may not yet work on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10.
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Speechify
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Text to Speech for Windows 7 Free Download: A Comprehensive Guide | Speechify
October 3, 2023 - Discover the best free text to speech software for Windows 7. Download and convert text into natural-sounding audio files easily.
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Softpedia
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Text-to-Speech Voices Installer - Download - Softpedia
Text-to-Speech Voices Installer downloads the voices from Microsoft directly so you don't have to worry about the source of the downloads. ... An intuitive application with a very good compression ratio that can help you not only create and ...
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Microsoft Store
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Text to Speech - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
โš ๏ธ Note: This app requires the .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0 (x64) or later. The system may ask to download the required libraries if they are not already installed on your device. With Text to Speech, your device will speak what you type or save as audio file.
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Microsoft
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Download Microsoft Speech Platform - Runtime Languages (Version 11) from Official Microsoft Download Center
Download the free app and enjoy breathtaking views with a new background each day. ... The following downloads contain the Microsoft Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech engine data files for all currently supported languages for the Microsoft Speech Platform - Runtime 11.
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Softonic
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Download Text To Voice For Windows 7 - Best Software & Apps
Download Text To Voice For Windows 7. Free and safe download. Download the latest version of the top software, games, programs and apps in 2025.
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Internet Archive
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Windows Text-to-Speech Voices : Microsoft : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are speech synthesizers provided for use with applications that use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-speech voices. Client voices are shipped with Windows operating systems; server voices are available for download for use with server applications such as Speech Server, Lync etc.
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WinClassic
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Classic Text to Speech voices for newer versions of Windows | WinClassic
UPDATE, 9-27-2017: I regret to inform everyone that I recently received a DMCA claim from Microsoft on the installer for the Windows XP voices, so both of these downloads are currently unavaila
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Microsoft Support
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Setting speech options in Windows 7 - Microsoft Support
Change the language, voice profile, and other settings for use with Speech Recognition. Choose the text-to-speech voice and change other settings.
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Seven Forums
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Adding TTS quality voices to Windows 7?! - Windows 7 Help Forums
Free Text to Speech Natural Voices | Text To Speech Software with Free Natural Voices - Zero2000.com ... Took a look at that site. For some reason it's blocked in my hosts file: Anyway if you tried downloading MS Mike, Mary and Sam they are for earlier versions of windows - not windows 7. ... Computer Type: Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number: ASUS OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 CPU: AMD C-60 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
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That really didn't answer the question.  Options other than Anna need to be included - not everyone likes her.  Not everyone can hear her properly.  Options really are needed.  For folks with disabilities like I work with - she doesn't cut it for most of them.  We've used other SAPI 5 compliant voices in previous versions of Windows - but in 7 but they don't seem to load or work no matter what we do.  And I can't tell my students they can't upgrade to newer versions of Windows or they won't be able to use their computer - that seems kinda silly.  It's all about accessibility, folks.

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Hey Quelus,

Unfortunately, there is only one program that is Narrator in WIndows 7.

Narrator is the text-to-speech program in Windows 7 that reads what is displayed on your screen, including the contents of the active window, menu options, or the text you have typed. Narrator reads menus without leaving the active window and includes a pleasant, natural-sounding voice.

Narrator has a number of options that allow you to customize the way screen elements are read. You can:

โ–  Read Narrator menus without leaving the active window.

โ– Move around the desktop with the number keys using virtual focus, which allows you to move through the objects on the desktop and read aloud any content they contain.

โ– Move around the desktop with the arrow keys using virtual menus.

โ– Use bookmarks to find commonly used programs.

To know more about Narrator,

Hear text read aloud with Narrator

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Hear-text-read-aloud-with-Narrator

For your information:

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windows7/

Apart from this, if you want any other text to speech programs, you can use your favorite search engine on the Internet to look for any third party programs.

Important Note: This response contains a reference to a third party World Wide Web site. Microsoft is providing this information as a convenience to you. Microsoft does not control these sites and has not tested any software or information found on these sites; therefore, Microsoft cannot make any representations regarding the quality, safety, or suitability of any software or information found there. There are inherent dangers in the use of any software found on the Internet, and Microsoft cautions you to make sure that you completely understand the risk before retrieving any software from the Internet.

Regards,

Savan โ€“ Microsoft Support.

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Microsoft Store
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Text to Speech Free - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Want to listen to text being read out to you? Simply Install our software today and just paste in the text you want read out. Our text to speech software will begin reading out the text to you.
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Does anyone know how I can get more voices?

You can download some more voices from many free TTS voices (which may not be so good). One of the sources for downloading free Microsoft and LTS TTS voices is Zero2000. You can also purchase very high quality TTS voices for Windows from companies like Ivona, Cepstral or CereProc.

Source Choose Text-to-Speech Voice in Windows 10

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Narrator for Windows (all versions) has a few built-in options for male and female voices.

To set Narrator voice options (Microsoft)

Here is a good source for more voices:

Best Free Windows Narrator Voices You Can Use (Zero2000.com)

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In the world of today, more and more people use the text to speech computer technology to free their eyes and save time. As a vital component of the text to speech technology, voices, i.e. speech engines, are the core of text to speech software. Because text to speech software need to invoke voices to synthetic speech and output spoken audio.

There are many voices available on the Internet today, such as AT&T Natural Voices, Cepstral voices, IVONA voices, CereProc voices, NeoSpeech voices, etc.. But most of these voices are commercial and the prices are even higher than the prices of normal text-to-speech software. For example, the prices of AT&T Natural Voices are $35 (base required) plus $35 per additional voice, and the prices of Cepstral voices are &29.99 per voice.

Fortunately, there are also enough high-quality free voices we can use. Most of them are compatible with the Microsoft SAPI 4 or SAPI 5. Generally, the higher SAPI version, the better quality.

Here is the free voices list sorted by the recommended degree.

Microsoft Mike, Mary and Sam -

Microsoft Sam is the default English male voice shipped with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Though not the default, Microsoft Sam is also available in Windows Vista Home Premium. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system.

Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively with better quality, available for download from the Microsoft website or other third party text-to-speech related websites.

The most noticeable feature of these three voices is there are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of them. SAPI 5 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems. As an exception, the SAPI 5 versions of these voices cannot be installed on Windows Vista and Windows 7. The SAPI 4 versions are more compatible. They can be installed and used on Windows 98 and all the later Windows operating systems.

Microsoft Anna -

Microsoft Anna is the default English voice shipped with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Microsoft Anna is a SAPI 5-only voice and is designed to sound more natural than the previous system default voice Microsoft Sam.

This excellent female voice is base on the new Microsoft SAPI 5.3/5.4. So you cannot use it on Windows XP directly and also there is no standalone installer of this voice on the Microsoft website. The only way to use this fantastic voice on Windows XP is by the Microsoft Streets & Trips. The Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 and later versions install the voice and the new Microsoft SAPI onto Windows XP computers for the voice-prompt direction feature.

Some third party text-to-speech related websites supply smaller repacked Microsoft Anna installers for Windows XP users. However, it's incomplete and not working correctly on Windows XP because the SAPI version of Windows XP is 5.1.

Lernout & Hauspie Voices -

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, or L&H, was a leading Belgium-based speech recognition technology company. This company released dozens of high-quality SAPI 4 voices across multiple languages, including ten American English voices and two British English voices.

In addition, Lernout & Hauspie Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from Lernout & Hauspie, and available through Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Reader.

Most of the above voices can be found on the Microsoft's website or downloaded directly from the 2nd Speech Center web site. Click here to download them immediately.

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Panopreter
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The text to speech software reads any text aloud, converts text to audio files.
Here are the details about the voices and steps to install the Windows language packs. On Windows 11, 10 or 8, there are three text to speech voices available: Microsoft David (US male), Zira (US female) and Hazel (UK female). On Windows 7, the text to speech voice is Microsoft Anna (US female).
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Super User
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How to iInstall new text-to-speech languages on Windows 7 32bit Home Premium? - Super User
I've been hoping to install a Spanish Text-To-Speech voice for use with a vb.Net program I'm creating. I've downloaded MSSpeech_TTS_es-ES_Helena from this download link on the Microsoft site and installed it.
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Speechify
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Text to Speech in Windows 7: Enhancing Your Digital Experience | Speechify
November 23, 2024 - A free text-to-speech voice is a software-generated voice that reads text aloud without cost. Examples include Microsoft Anna in Windows 7 and other free text-to-speech software like Balabolka and NaturalReader.
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Neuber
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New voices
Or are you dissatisfied with your current TTS voices? The free VoicesInstaller takes a new approach to correcting sound problems and offers 28 new high-quality Microsoft voices for Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10--including a variety of English, French and Spanish voices.