Where to find good quality SAPI5 desktop voices for P2A?

[Les Parson 99]

1 minute ago, DrumsArt said:

I use CereProc voice, I was able to benefit from important reductions (50%) at Christmas time in 2016 and 2017. One voice=31€/2. I am very satisfied with these voices (12) that I can use in P2Atc, VoxAtc and MCE.

Regards,

do you have a website? 

[DrumsArt 270]

2 minutes ago, Les Parson said:

do you have a website? 

https://www.cereproc.com/

[Les Parson 99]

Thanks for the info.

[Pete Dowson 558]

22 hours ago, Les Parson said:

I thought I read that if one leaves the voice area for a specific ATC facility - Blank -, P2A will select a random voice from the users library. Is that not accurate? 

I don't know. I didn't realise I could make them blank. They start off with a voice already chosen. I'll see if I can set one blank ... 

If several are blank, will it try to choose different ones for each of those? I want them all to be different, really, so they'd all need to be blank, assuming that P2A would try not to re-use any -- if possible, of course. There may not be enough.

Also I don't want it choosing the default Microsoft ones. I don't like those, they sound too robotic to me. I don't know if the default ones can be eliminated from the selection.

Dave, any advice on all this, please?

22 hours ago, DrumsArt said:

I use CereProc voice,

Are they good?  I've just listed to the samples, and the British ones are certainly okay. So that's another route for expanding my library. If leaving assignments blank does make P2A choose a different one at random from the list, and I can exclude the ones I don't like, then it will be worth adding some of the CereProc ones too ... but maybe only at Christmas!? :-)  (Currently £25 each).

Pete

 

[Les Parson 99]

I bought three of the CereProc voices yesterday and they are fine for me. 

[DrumsArt 270]

3 hours ago, Pete Dowson said:

I don't know. I didn't realise I could make them blank. They start off with a voice already chosen. I'll see if I can set one blank ... 

If several are blank, will it try to choose different ones for each of those? I want them all to be different, really, so they'd all need to be blank, assuming that P2A would try not to re-use any -- if possible, of course. There may not be enough.

Also I don't want it choosing the default Microsoft ones. I don't like those, they sound too robotic to me. I don't know if the default ones can be eliminated from the selection.

Dave, any advice on all this, please?

Are they good?  I've just listed to the samples, and the British ones are certainly okay. So that's another route for expanding my library. If leaving assignments blank does make P2A choose a different one at random from the list, and I can exclude the ones I don't like, then it will be worth adding some of the CereProc ones too ... but maybe only at Christmas!? :-)  (Currently £25 each).

Pete

 

To my knowledge there was a promotion in March 2017 too. Each time it was a 50% discount.
I have 12 CereProc voices bought in three installments (Heather, Adam, Giles, Isabella, Jack, Katherine, Nathan, Sarah, Hannah, Megan, William and Stuart). Personally I find them very good as well as the price during promotions 😉

Regards,

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 870]

Leaving the voice assignment blank does not currently select a random voice.  It does let Windows assign a voice, but it is not random.  

Random voice selection is still a future enhancement.

Dave

[RodgerC 58]

I just purchased "Megan" from CereProc and it's very good.  Will purchase more later.

[RodgerC 58]

I just purchased a bundle of voices at Nextup. The Ivona voices sounded good on the website.  I have installed the voices but can't seem to get them to work.  They do appear in P2A and I have selected them.  My question is do I need to use TextAloud4 in order to get them to work?  I purchased a CereProc voice yesterday and it works perfectly, without any program to make it work.  Don't understand why these voices won't work.  Can anyone help me out please?  Thanks, Rodger

[DrumsArt 270]

14 minutes ago, C130FE said:

I just purchased a bundle of voices at Nextup. The Ivona voices sounded good on the website.  I have installed the voices but can't seem to get them to work.  They do appear in P2A and I have selected them.  My question is do I need to use TextAloud4 in order to get them to work?  I purchased a CereProc voice yesterday and it works perfectly, without any program to make it work.  Don't understand why these voices won't work.  Can anyone help me out please?  Thanks, Rodger

Normally no need to use TexAloud4...I have no answer for the rest, sorry.

Regards,

[RodgerC 58]

38 minutes ago, DrumsArt said:

My question is do I need to use TextAloud4 in order to get them to work? 

 

 

38 minutes ago, DrumsArt said:

Normally no need to use TexAloud4...I have no answer for the rest, sorry.

Thanks, that at least eliminates part of my problem.

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 870]

Be sure that the voices you installed are 64 bit Desktop SAPI 5 voices.  Some voices come with both a 32 bit and a 64 bit installer and you must use the 64 bit one.

Also, reboot the PC after installing.

If you can select them in P2A and they still don't work, send me the P2A Log file for the most recent flight where they didn't work.  There might be some error messages.

Log files are located in: 
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\P2A_200\Logs 
where <UserName> is your PC user name. Portions of the path may be hidden by default, so be sure Windows Explorer has Show Hidden Items checked in the View tab.
A new one is created each time you start Pilot2ATC, so if you take the most recent one when you have the error, you should have the correct one.  
Dave

[RodgerC 58]

Dave, I should've remembered to reboot after installing the voices.  Yesterday when I set everything up to fly the voices worked perfect.  Thanks.

Rodger