Installing Alternate TTS Voices
Overview
This will allow you to use a custom voice to be set within Deepbot. The voice can be used to read donations/use @tts@/etc.
Note: Works with Windows 7/8/10.
Important
Warning!!: This guide involves doing manual edits to your registry. We do not take any responsibility for any damage done to your Computer/Device. Do at your own risk.
Setup
1. Install the Speech Platform V11
- A. Go Here
- B. Click “Download”
- C. Select “x64_SpeechPlatformRuntime\SpeechPlatformRuntime.msi”
- D. Run the Installer after downloading.
2. Get the Alternate Voices
- A. Go Here
- B. Click “Download”
- C. Select the voice files you want. Note: They are the ones that have “TTS” in the file name.
- List of English Speaking Voices:
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-CA_Heather
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-GB_Hazel
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-IN_Heera
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-US_Helen
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-US_ZiraPro
- MSSpeech_TTS_en-AU_Hayley
- D. Run the installers for the Voices you downoaded.
3. Extract the registry tokens
- A. Open Regedit (Hit Windows + R Keys > Type Regedit in Box)
- B. Under - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices > Right click the “Tokens” folder and export. Save this file to your desktop as voices1.reg so it will be easy to find later.
- C. Under - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech Server\v11.0\Voices > Right click “Tokens” and again export it, again to the desktop. Call it voices2.reg.
4. Edit the Voices 1 and 2 files
- A. Open Voices1.reg in Notepad. (Right Click > Open With.. > Select Notepad.)
- B. Press “Ctrl + H”
- C. Enter “\Speech Server\v11.0\” into the “Find What” Field.
- D. Enter “\Speech\” in the “Replace With” Field.
- E. Click “Replace All”
- F. Save the File.
- G. Repeat Steps A-F for Voices2.reg File
5. Merge the new Registry files into your registry
- A. Double Click to “Run” both Voices1.reg and Voices2.reg
- B. Click “Yes” when propmted.
6. You have now installed your custom voices. Start up Deepbot and you should have Access to the new voices.