Hi all,
So I was bored with having only a few voices on my Windows 8.1 PC running X-Plane.
I looked into adding new voices & discovered that if I add new languages in the Language applet in Control Panel, I can get quite a few new voices.
I added German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French & Portuguese. This gave me 7 new females voices as shown below.
TTS_MS_DE-DE_HEDDA_11.0
TTS_MS_JA-JP_HARUKA_11.0
TTS_MS_ES-ES_HELENA_11.0
TTS_MS_ES-MX_SABINA_11.0
TTS_MS_IT-IT_ELSA_11.0
TTS_MS_FR-FR_HORTENSE_11.0
TTS_MS_PT-BR_MARIA_11.0
The only downside is that each time you add a new language, about 100 MB of disk space is taken up.
I think on Windows 10, the same language addition adds more voices than in Windows 8.1.
But I can't confirm this as I don't have it.
Hope others find this useful & get some new voices!
Cheers,
Steve