![]() Believe it or not, I actually found that I like the *FREE* Microsoft Zira voice better - to me, it sounded a bit more natural. I played around with an audio file, playing it one time using the Ivona voice and then playing it using the Microsoft Zira voice. ![]() If you are using a PC (vs a Mac), Microsoft actually includes a couple of default TTS voices, one being Zira. You can load additional voices other than Ivona. It may look difficult, but really it is just a matter of sounding out the word and selecting each phonetic sound from the list. "tomorrow" could be phonetically defined as "t uw m aa 1 r ow 2" (where 1 and 2 are the primary and secondary stresses). They do have a "Phoneme" dictionary which you can use to piece together the pronunciation, for example: Ivona Studio uses SSML for phonetic customizations, but TextAloud does not. I have downloaded and tested NextUp's TextAloud ( ) with the Ivona Salli voice (as I still have an active Ivona license until the end of this week).
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