Text-to-Speech Demo: PortalGroove SpeechPlayer + Microsoft Lili

This is a short demo of the PortalGroove SpeechPlayer text-to-speech application reading a Chinese text passage using the Microsoft Lili Chinese voice on Windows Vista.

SpeechPlayer features TV-like closed captioning to complement listening experience.

More info: http://www.portalgroove.com/speechplayer/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tts
• text-to-speech
• voice
• screen reader
• microsoft lili
• chinese voice
• texttospeech

[gck86]

@portalgroove how you get this voice?microsft Lili

[portalgroove]

@gck86 It's in the Chinese Language Pack for Windows Vista/7 (Ultimate or Enterprise editions only) -- available as a separate download via Windows Update.

[fireguy1919]

Microsoft Lili is chinese voice??? that sucks i thought i woul have a full collection of Microsoft TTS voices including Sam, Mike, Mary, Anna, and Lili

[portalgroove]

Although Microsoft Lili is a Chinese voice, it reads English text too albeit with a Chinese accent. Microsoft Lili is a free TTS voice if you have the Ultimate/Enterprise edition of Windows Vista/7.

[beatboxpeej]

awesome way to practice your chinese by listening chinese. Pronounciation is lil fast..but I suppose you can slow it right?

[portalgroove]

Yes, the rate of speech can be slowed down.

[DXSnakeEater]

Wow, it sounds like she's cursing a lot. I heard "Faggot," the f-bomb, and the s-bomb, and maybe some other ones. I know she's speaking Chinese, but it still sounds like she's cursing. XD

[jason24568]

Microsoft Lili is a chinese voice.

[Kyon9854]

im learning madarin chinese right now and it would be a great help if i could find microsoft lili