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Adding all Windows voices to your ATC tool - for free

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The two or so default TTS voices coming with Windows are monotone and boring. Using neural voices in Azure is quite good, but super expensive. Trust me, I tried. The cheapest way to make more voices available to 124thATC or Pilot2ATC is to add the remaining Windows voices including the Cortana one, to your system. For free I might add.

First, open up your Speech settings in Windows and add all languages that are available in English like so:

Next, open up your Registry Editor (Win+R, type regedit) - and navigate to this path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Voices\Tokens

We will export the entire "Tokens" section. Right click on "Tokens" and then choose "Export". Save it was "voices.reg" on your Desktop for example.

To make all of those available, you will have to use a tool like Visual Studio Code or Notepad++. If you don't have that, go ahead and install either one of those.

Once you have one of them, open the editor and open the exported file from your Desktop (or whereever you saved it). In my example, I used VSCode.

Open up the Find/Replace function of your editor. We want to replace

Speech_OneCore

for

Speech

like so:

You may be asked if you want to replace all occurrences - you will want to confirm that. Once you have done this, the content of the file should look like this:

Save the file. Next we need to import that into your registry. That is very simple. Close your editor, and simply double-click on the file you edited. You will see a warning - simply click on Yes:

To confirm that everything worked, you can once again open up your Registry Editor, and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens

All your voices should be in there now - and that will make the voices available to your ATC tool.

Enjoy.