So I recently tried some alternative voices for speech synthesis because I'm fed up with the sound of Microsoft Mary. I got some weird results and after a while I have discovered another RDP issue.
As far as I can tell, after an RDP session SAPI5 is broken. It works during the RDP session, and before a session, but afterwards is left broken. Audio (wave playback) continues to work. SAPI 4 seems to work, however.
If you login via VNC and then disconnect, speech is fixed. I expect going up to the console would work also. But VNC is considerably more painful to use than RDP, so not really my favoured solution.
So that rules out Cepstral Millie and also AT&T Audrey, which appears in SAPi4 settings but plays back at double speed. L&H British Female does seem to work.
As far as I can tell, after an RDP session SAPI5 is broken. It works during the RDP session, and before a session, but afterwards is left broken. Audio (wave playback) continues to work. SAPI 4 seems to work, however.
If you login via VNC and then disconnect, speech is fixed. I expect going up to the console would work also. But VNC is considerably more painful to use than RDP, so not really my favoured solution.
So that rules out Cepstral Millie and also AT&T Audrey, which appears in SAPi4 settings but plays back at double speed. L&H British Female does seem to work.
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