I'd love a good quality version of eloquence for sapi without code factory's stupid drm thing for windows myself. Would also be willing to pay for it. Windows 10 has decent voices but my biggest complaint they are still a bit too low on the volume end of things.  I found something about a sapi eloquence but it did not work as a main sapi voice. I could not find it in any speech control panels.

The problem I tend to find on Windows 10 is that most Sapi applications are 32 bit, and Windows 10 won't accept any changes to the 32 bit sapi voice.

Even when i get up the 32 bit sapi voice control pannel and change it manually, one reset and Windows 10 defaults back to Microsoft Hazel.

its actually slightly frustrating. Hazel is okay, but there are definitely voices I prefer, still for 32 bit applications it seems I'm stuck with her.

See, I don't know what qualities in a voice you'd be looking for. No sapi voice is responsive, though a few come close. If you're looking for one that sounds like eloquence, or enough like eloquence, you're out of luck. If you want responsiveness over anything else, I'd say eSpeak. The others are concatinative engines, some kind of bad, some OK, a few are pretty good. You could get the infovox pack, I like those voices, I have their NVDA equivalents. I'd say Innoetics voices, but they shut down and you can no longer purchase them. There are the Cereproc voices, they're not too costly, but you do have to buy each one you want, there is no one license for every voice. You can hear samples though. They have a lot of ones with interesting accents, though they do have American sounding ones too.

I was able to download it without registering.

Personally, if you can get Sapi4 installed, true voice's adult male 1 voice is a dead ringer for steven hawking. a shame that it wasn't ported to sapi5 like was dun with Michael and michell, because then we could have a version that doesn't crash my windows 10 after about an hour.

Hello.

If you want eloquence for NVDA you can download eloquence for free as an addon at this link https://***/index.php?page=NVDA

Press the number 1 key five times, then h until you hear eloquence and go from there.

I find that no matter how many voices Microsoft or any other company comes out with, I always go back to eloquence.

Well, the Blind Help Project turned out to be a waste of time, the pages for are still there, but the file for SAPI5 Eloquence for Windows has been removed.

If anyone has a copy and is willing to share, you can upload it here:

https://www.sendspace.com/dropbox/qn017u

And if you don't mind I'll add it to my list of shared files that you can access by clicking the website link at the bottom of my messages.

Thanks!

I tell you, there were no download links for anything until I registered and verified my email address, then download links were present for everything. But when I clicked on the link for Eloquence for Windows, all I get is an error saying that the file was removed.

And, as if anyone needed any more reasons not to buy from Code Factory, I went to their site to see if a newer version of their Eloquence for Windows was available. They must have removed a lot of something because the installer I downloaded yesterday was less than half the size of the installer I downloaded six months ago. 13 Mb versus 28 Mb. I wonder what they removed.

Also before I uninstalled their Eloquence to get rid of the gawd damned DRM, I first wanted to deactivate the copy to preserve my activation count, but every time I tried, the activation server through back an error. That makes me wonder if new purchasers can successfully activate their purchases.

I didn't bother to try contacting their tech support because it is non existent, I've never received a reply to any of my past inquiries. So, it wasn't worth wasting my time trying.

Well, that didn't last long, the two games I play the most are Spoonbill's Klondike Solitair and Sudoku. This version of Eloquence crashed both within a minute. So it got uninstalled and deleted.

@flackers

Sure, if you're willing to share, I'll give it a shot. If you need a place to upload it to, you can use my sendspace pro dropbox at:

https://www.sendspace.com/dropbox/qn017u

Note: This link does not upload into my shared files folder, files uploaded here go into a private folder, so if you don't want the file passed around, it won't be.

Thanks!

I got it, sendspace has no such filtering, you are probably thinking about email attachment filtering.

Thank you sir! You are a gentleman and a scholar! Thumbs up to you!

If you go to http://grossgang.com/tts/sapi_voices, you can find a Realspeak installer that contains all the English voices, minus the Indian English voice. It also comes with two Spanish voices. If you look more at the page there's actually way more than Realspeak as well, i.e., he has a 2005 version of neospeach up there and other things that I can't remember at the top of my head. I wish he'd put VW Julie on there, but I can kind of see why he doesn't because he could get in trouble for doing that. Isn't that voice still sold?