Microsoft Windows 10 comes with two text-to-speech engines or voices which vary for different language versions of Windows. For example, the US English version of Windows 10 comes with Microsoft Zira and Microsoft David voices. These voices can be used in Microsoft apps and desktop applications. But Microsoft also uses two separate voices for Cortana which again vary for various language versions of Windows. In case of US English version of Windows 10, Cortana uses Eva and Mark voices. These voices are not available for any other application except for Cortana itself.
Windows provides both a device-based speech recognition feature (available through the Windows Speech Recognition Desktop app), and a cloud-based speech recognition service in those markets and regions where Cortana is available. Here is how to enable the Speech Recognition feature in Windows 10.
But with a little modification of the Windows Registry you can enable these voices for all the other applications as well.In order to enable these hidden TTS voices for all the applications in Windows 10, you have to add a few entries to the Windows registry. To make things easier, you can just download, extract the contents to a folder and double-click on the REG files inside. The Eva Voice Windows 10.reg file enables the Eva voice and the Mark Voice Windows 10.reg enables the Mark voice in Windows 10.After enabling these new voices, you can open Control Panel and choose the default voice. You can press the Win+X and select Control Panel from the menu. In the Control Panel, search for “speech” and then click on the Change text to speech settings. In the window that opens, you can choose a default voice from Voice Selection list-box and then finally click on OK button.Conclusion: You can easily enable Microsoft Mark and Microsoft Eva that are hidden inside Windows 10’s Cortana files. By enabling these extra voices, you will be able to use them in all the other desktop applications.
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How to Enable or Disable Voice Activation for Speech Recognition in Windows 10When you in Windows 10, it lets you control your PC with your voice alone, without needing a keyboard or mouse.Using only your voice, you can open menus, click buttons and other objects on the screen, dictate text into documents, and write and send emails. I walk slowly but i never look back.