![]() ![]() The voices were tested primarily with the Chromebook's built-in ChromeVox screenreader and Select to Speak text to speech tool. Once you have bought the voice, you will be able to select it as your Preferred Voice for English. You can click on the Play button to hear the individual voices, then click on the Basket button to buy it. People in Scotland should definitely consider the Rhona voice. There are a number of UK English voices available, costing £5.09 or £6.39 each. Click on this to see the list of around 100 voices available to purchase and download. Make sure that the extension is active on your Chromebook by clicking on the Customise and Control icon (three dots at the top right of the Chrome browser), then More Tools and Extensions.Īssuming the Acapela extension is active, go back to Speech Engines under Text-to-Speech Voice Settings and you should see the Acapela TTS Engine. You need to install the free Acapela TTS extension in order to access the Acapela voices. If you find a voice you want to use, select it as your Preferred Voice for English.Īcapela produce a wide range of high quality voices, so having them available for the Chromebook is definitely good news. 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. 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. Recent innovation based on Deep Neural Networks (DNN) is opening up new opportunities for the creation of personalized and natural digital voices, adapted to the environment in which the voice is used.Īcapela Voice Factory solution accurately reproduces a given voice (including celebrity ones) in a short space of time and at an affordable price.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. Using expertise and industry insight, the Acapela Voice Factory has been designed to develop natural, high quality exclusive voices. Expanding the brand identityĪcapela Voice Factory custom voices are the result of in-depth research into recording, processing and fine-tuning methods used in the text to voice production process. It enables you to perform your voice branding through any audio touch point with a very natural and pleasant digital voice. ![]() The Acapela Voice Factory is Acapela’s solution for custom voice creation. ![]() A custom voice can be a game changer for brands, allowing companies and organizations to be more relevant in their conversations with their targeted audience. ![]()
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