Windows 11 Natural Voices

[Teezy4Real]

I think this has been asked before without any updates so I was wondering if it's planned or in consideration to implement the use of the natural (or neural) voices that now come standard with windows (e.g. Aria). I know of and use the plugin that enables this functionality with Azure Speech but thought a native implementation would be easier to use for most people.

[Malic]

Link to post with reply from Gary:

https://forum.voiceattack.com/smf/index.php?topic=4814.0

[SemlerPDX]

I think this has been asked before without any updates so I was wondering if it's planned or in consideration to implement the use of the natural (or neural) voices that now come standard with windows (e.g. Aria). I know of and use the plugin that enables this functionality with Azure Speech but thought a native implementation would be easier to use for most people.

Text-to-speech in VoiceAttack uses whatever voice you have set as the default TTS voice in Windows.  Naturally, if you have selected something such as the "Aria" example you noted, and have issues using a 'Say something with Text to Speech' action in VoiceAttack (e.g. spoken phrase are not using that voice as set), you can post up a bug report in the Issues section of this forum.

Speech Recognition and changes to the WSR application in Windows 11 (the announced deprecation & replacement) have nothing to do with Text-to-Speech, so the linked forum post(s) in the reply above this one are not relevant here - completely separate concept/topic.

[Pfeil]

To be clear: VoiceAttack supports text-to-speech voices that support the SAPI standard.

If a voice cannot be selected in the "Speech Properties" control panel applet, it is not SAPI compliant.