Text to Speech - SAPI 4 & SAPI 5

CrazyTalk gives you the ability to type text or copy text from a document or webpage directly into CrazyTalk, which is then instantly transformed into spoken audio by CrazyTalk's Text-to-Speech voice analysis technology. CrazyTalk doesn't contain TTS engine itself, but it will help you access to the default TTS engine in your operation system (e.g. Microsoft).

Add-on Text-to-Speech pack

The quality of the voice will determine the quality of your Text-To-Speech experience. And now, in partnership with Cepstral, a powerhouse for Text-To-Speech software, Reallusion introduces a special voice pack- Text-To-Speech Voices. This pack includes two of the most popular voices from Cepstral, William and Linda, with an exclusive low price that cannot be found anywhere else. Learn more by visiting the Creative Resource Center- the total solution to increase your creative power! Know more

Advanced Text-to-Speech for your business or project

Advancements in Text-to-Speech inside CrazyTalk now offer better quality audio performance with increased natural human voices supported by many third-party text-to-speech voice companies. Additional solutions for text driven synthetic voice performances are available in Reallusion store for professional business applications, home projects, and educational exercises for students. Easily control voice selection, volume, pitch, and speed parameters with a simple interface or dynamically using supported development languages.

Text-to-Speech voices for any voice type

Your text-to-speech vocal performance can be delivered by multiple voices you may choose to add to your voice library. Custom text-to-speech voices allow your text to be performed by Male voice, Female voice, child voice, or character voices with accents to deliver localized voices for every region of the world.

SAPI 5 Compatible Voices for High-Quality Text-to-Speech

Text-to-Speech technology is ever advancing in quality and performance. CrazyTalk brings you up-to-date with the best in text-to-speech tools with the support of SAPI 5 voices. SAPI 5 voices provide a smooth synthetic human voice creation that is easy to understand. Your text-to-speech driven audio will have a clearer voice that allows you to develop clean audio from any written text all delivered by a CrazyTalk generated character. SAPI 5 voice packs are available online for purchase from the following voice partners.

Text-to-Speech supports many languages

Producing vocal performances from text supporting multiple languages from around the world is possible through the many available third-party voice add-ons for CrazyTalk's text-to-speech voice library. Industry leading text-to-speech voice developers produce high-quality SAPI 5 compliant voices to support the multi-cultural global society.

TTS download

If you wish to use other voice (child, robot, and so on) or a language other than English, you can download the TTS engines from TTS engine providers.
For each Voice/Language you need to download *both* a TTS Engine and a Language Add-on.
To download go to the following URL:

	SAPI 4	SAPI 5
TTS Engine	Microsoft English Text-to- Speech SAPI4 Engine*	Microsoft Mary, Mike and Sam 5.0
Provider	Microsoft	Microsoft
Preview	N/A	N/A
Developer	N/A	N/A	More	More	More

Note: The above table of TTS engines are for users of Windows 2000/ XP.
For Vista user, please download SAPI 4 zip file (8.04MB) here and follow below installation steps for your PC.
Step 1) Install spchapi.EXE
Step 2) Install msttsL.EXE

FAQ

1) How can I use other voice or a language other than English?
A: Most TTS engines provide voice add-on. If you wish to use a particular voice (male, child, robot, and so on) or a language other than English, you can download the TTS engines from TTS engine providers such as AT&T, NeoSpeech or Ceptral...etc. Please visit their websites for more info.
Here is a site below which provides some TTS engine for your reference:
http://nextup.com/TextAloud/SpeechEngine/voices.html