OK
Apologies for delay – I have only just seen this reply.
If you have still not resolved this lets try this another way.
1. Press windows key and type control panel and press enter.
2. This will open up an old Windows 7 style control panel.
3. Now find speech recognition – actually mislabeled as we will not be
touching speech recognition at all but don’t worry about that.
4. Under this press on the link which says text to Speech.
5. This should land you in a dialogue box which has a combo box for all
the voices available to be the windows system Text to speech voice.
6. As you change the voice in the combo box in this dialogue Windows
system will instantly start speaking a sample passage using this voice.
Unfortunately it is a little convoluted because as soon as you change a voice
in the combo box Windows jumps you out of the box to the next setting.
Therefore if you want to review further voices you have to continually shift
tab back into the voice person combo box and cursor to the next voice.
7. Finally when you have the voice you want – incidentally Susan is not
available on my system , but Hazel and Zeera as female voices are there, you
can tab to the ok button and your system voice will be changed without having
to go into anything about microphones.
Note - If Susan is a Microsoft “One Core” voice this may not be available
through this dialogue as Windows system normally uses standard Microsoft SAPI 5
voices. I think I read somewhere that it is possible to use One Core voices in
the wider system now but originally these voices were designed for use with
Narrator and I think Mobile Windows.
Both NVDA and Jaws now can use One Core as well.
I’ll try and investigate further to see if one core voices can now be used
beyond Narrator and other Screen readers to the wider system.
David Griffith
.ccess-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Clive Pallett
Sent: 20 December 2019 00:20
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Changing the default voice in windows 10
Hello David,
Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions but I still have the same
system voice. After selecting the voice there is a button for setting up the
microphone. I select this and two buttons appear: I can't hear cortana and
cortana Can't hear me. I select one of these buttons and tab to the Skip this
step button as I have cortana switched off. Microsoft susan is the default
voice in Narrator, but my system voice is still Microsoft David when I try the
blindgamers games. Am I missing something here?
Best wishes,
Clive Pallett
