Installing Chinese voice synthesis in Windows

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A frequently asked question on this blog is: how to install Chinese voice in Windows? Voice synthesis is a great enhancement to Pablo and Pingrid.

Here are some step-by-step instructions. This is mostly a repost of a comment made by Benjamin Lim on this blog (thanks, Benjamin).

1. Follow the Lingoes link http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/speech.htm
(Lingoes is a very good freeware translation tool).

2. At the Lingoes webpage look for the following paragraph:

Recommended Excellent TTS Engine
Microsoft Simplified Chinese Voice
PackageFile Size: 1.55 MB
Download: Mirror 1, Mirror 2

3. Download that and it will appear as "Microsoft_TTS_51_chs.msi"

4. Double click on the msi file once it is downloaded

5. Go to Windows Control Panel and click on the Speech icon. Change the Voice Selection from default to the newly installed one. In my case Microsoft Simplified Chinese.
** Before you close that window, click on the Audio Output button and direct the voice to the correct audio driver which might come with your sound card.

6. That's it and I hope it is helpful for some.