How to Unlock New Text to Speech Voices in Windows 10

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Microsoft has a tradition of adding newtext-to-speech voicesin the new versions of its operating system. Windows Vista presented Anna to the World, which retained even in Windows 7. Windows 8 also introduced some new voices, including David, Zira and Hazel. AndWindows 10also introduced some new additional voices.

SomeWindows 10enthusiasts have discovered these new voices in the US English version of the operating system: Microsoft Mark Mobile and Microsoft Eva Mobile, and a special test voice designed for Microsoft’s personal assistant, Cortana. But unfortunately, Eva voice is locked by Microsoft, but don’t worry about that, because here’s how you can unlock it with just a couple of registry tweaks.

Steps to unlock new text to speech voices in Windows 10

The voice of Eva Mobile can be unlocked with a following registry tweak:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaM]@=“Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)““409”=“Microsoft Eva Mobile - English (United States)““CLSID”="{179F3D56-1B0B-42B2-A962-59B7EF59FE1B}““LangDataPath”=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,5c,00,65,00,6e,00,2d,00,55,00,53,00,5c,00,4d,00,53,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,4c,00,6f,00,63,00,65,00,6e,00,55,00,53,00,2e,00,64,00,61,00,74,00,00,00"VoicePath”=hex(2):25,00,77,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,69,00,72,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,70,00,65,00,65,00,63,00,68,00,5f,00,4f,00,6e,00,65,00,43,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,5c,00,45,00,6e,00,67,00,69,00,6e,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,54,00,54,00,53,00,5c,00,65,00,6e,00,2d,00,55,00,53,00,5c,00,4d,00,31,00,30,00,33,00,33,00,45,00,76,00,61,00,00,00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSpeechVoicesTokensMSTTS_V110_enUS_EvaMAttributes]“Age”=“Adult"“Gender”=“Female"“Version”=“11.0"“Language”=“409"“Name”=“Microsoft Eva Mobile"“SharedPronunciation”=“““Vendor”=“Microsoft"“DataVersion”=“11.0.2013.1022"Save the text above as a .reg file, or download it as a already packed and ready to use Registry file below:Download Registry tweak for Eva voice

Now, do the following steps:

Control PanelEase of AccessSpeech Recognition

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English US version of the operating system isn’t the only one having various text-to-speech voice ‘characters. You can find more localized voices if you install otherLanguage Packsfor your version of Windows. For example, Spanish version features Helena and Sabina, French version has Microsoft Hortense, Chinese Traditional version includes Tracy and so on.so on.

How to add a new Narrator voice in Windows 10

As a quick reminder, if you want to change the TTS voice inWindows 10, all you need to do is navigate to Settings > Time & Language > Region & Language and add a new language.

Then select the new language and go to Options. Select Downloadlanguage pack> Speech > hit Download.When the download finished, go to Settings > Ease of Access > Narrator. Navigate to ‘Choose a voice’ and simply select the new voice that you want to add.

List of all the TTS voices available in Windows 10

As stated above, not all the voice are applicable for particular languages. Here’s the list of all the Narrator voices available in the latestWindows 10versions:

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Steps to unlock new text to speech voices in Windows 10#

How to add a new Narrator voice in Windows 10#

List of all the TTS voices available in Windows 10#

How to Unlock New Text to Speech Voices in Windows 10

Steps to unlock new text to speech voices in Windows 10

How to add a new Narrator voice in Windows 10

List of all the TTS voices available in Windows 10