Your assistive tech may or may not be able to use them (Narrator can now). Here are the Windows Mobile voices for Windows 10 Creators Edition (Spring 2017). Windows 8 SAPI5 Voices Korean Heami US English David UK English Hazel US English Zira Spanish Helena French Hortense German Hedda Japanese Haruka Chinese (simplified) Hanhan and Huihui Windows 8.1 and 10 SAPI5 Voices - all the above plus: Mexican Spanish Sabina Indian English Heera Chinese (traditional) Tracy Italian Elsa Polish Paulina Portuguese Maria (possibly Brazilian) Russian Irina None of the below are these Windows Runtime voices.Īll these SAPI5 voices can be expected to be found on Windows 8.1 and 10, either because (1) I've installed a language pack and found them or (2) they are on the Microsoft website, though incorrectly labeled. See Microsoft Speech on the Blog for more details. You simply install the 'Language Pack' from Control Panel and the voice will appear.Ĭonfusingly, Windows 10 also has many voices that are Windows Runtime voices or Mobile voices, not the SAPI5 voices that will work in your software. Windows 8 added many speech synthesizers available for lots of languages. English and Chinese were usually freely available. Microsoft Windows has shipped with a speech synthesizer since Windows 2000 - Microsoft Sam until Microsoft Vista, other voices since then. But any of the other links below may be broken or no longer provide the voice described. eSpeak is the exception: it's been around for a decade at least. These either disappear from the web after a year or two or get brought up and commercialised by a new or existing speech synthesis company. Universities and public bodies regularly produce new speech synthesizers from research projects and attempts to support their language or accent. All will work with the Thunder and NVDA free screenreaders. Below are some free options that all support SAPI5 - that is, they will work with most software on a Microsoft Windows machine. Later versions of Windows have better voices and more of them. Your computer almost certainly comes with at least one synthesizer. Free text-to-speech (TTS) or speech synthesizers

Free speech synthesizer online