The eSpeak voices are not of the highest quality, with some sounding quite robotic - hardly surprising as they are based on technology developed in the 1990s - but there is a broad range, so they are certainly worth investigating.
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The full range of eSpeak voices are not available by default, but if you scroll down to Speech Engines and click on Settings for eSpeechNG text-to-speech extension you will be able to access the full range (including a Scottish male voice and English regional voice and add them to the available voices. You can listen to the individual voices and choose the voice you want to use as your Preferred Voice.
Under Speech Properties, you can change Rate, Pitch and Volume of the speech, but for the moment, we'll focus on choosing a voice - scroll down to Preview and click on Voice to Preview. Now click on Manage Accessibility Features, then find Text-to-Speech and click on Text-to-Speech Voice Settings. Click on the Main Menu (three horizontal lines in the top left of the window), then click on Advanced, followed by Accessibility.Ĥ. Click on the Settings cog to get the Main Menu for Settings.ģ.
Click on the 'time' at the bottom right corner of the screen to get the system menu.Ģ. Then go to your Text to Speech Settings in Accessibility:ġ. To access these voices, first make sure that you have installed the latest version of the Chrome operating system. Google has added a new speech engine that can access eSpeak voices (primarily for Asian and East European countries, by default).
The latest version (V73) of the Chrome operating system makes more eSpeak and Acapela voices available for use.Īn additional UK English Google voice has been added, providing a choice, now, between male and female voices. However, the limited range of built-in voices has been a disadvantage for learners with additional support needs who need to use text-to-speech. Posted by Allan Wilson on the 17th April, 2019Ĭhromebooks are becoming increasingly popular in Scottish schools, partly because they are relatively easy to manage and also because they turn on very quickly so there's no need to wait for the device to boot up.
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