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===SAPI 5 Voices===
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[[Microsoft Samtext-to-speech (Speechvoices#Windows Articulation2000 Module){{Citationand needed|date=FebruaryWindows 2025XP|reason=AddedMicrosoft by a user that had an edit previously reverted on this page for vandalism (See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Speech_API&diff=prev&oldid=183459783 & https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Speech_API&diff=next&oldid=183459783); this was added 17 years ago with this revision: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Speech_API&oldid=186419910}}Sam]] is a commonly shipped SAPI 5 voice. In addition, [[Microsoft Office XP]] XP and [[Office 2003]] installed [[Lernout & Hauspie|L&H]] Michael and Michelle voices. The SAPI 5.1 SDK installs 3 more voices, ''[[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 2000 and Windows XP|Mike]]'', ''[[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 2000 and Windows XP|Mary]]'', and an additional testing voice known as "''[[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 2000 and Windows XP|Sample TTS Voice"]]'' that uses prerecorded voice recordings instead of synthesized voices. [[Windows Vista]] and [[Windows 7|7]] includes [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#MicrosoftWindows AnnaVista and Windows 7|Microsoft Anna]] which replaces Microsoft Sam and sounds more natural and intelligible.; Itit is also installed on Windows XP by [[Microsoft Streets & Trips]] 2006 and later versions. The Chinese version of Vista and later Windows client versions7 also includeincludes a female voice named [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows Vista and Windows 7|Microsoft Lili]]. [[Windows 8]] and later Windows client versions includes [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 8 and Windows 8.1|Microsoft LiliDavid]], [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 8 and Windows 8.1|Zira]], and [[Microsoft text-to-speech voices#Windows 8 and Windows 8.1|Hazel]], the latter of which is only included by default on Windows 8 and [[Windows 8.1|8.1]]. These voices replaced Microsoft Anna and sounds more natural and intelligible than previous voices.
===Managed code Speech API===
==Major applications using SAPI==
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*[[Windows XP Tablet PC Edition|Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition]] includes SAPI 5.1 and speech recognition engines 6.1 for English, Japanese, and Chinese (simplified and traditional)
*[[Windows Speech Recognition]] in [[Windows Vista]] and later
*[[Microsoft Narrator]] in Windows 2000 and later Windows operating systems
*[[Microsoft Office XP]] XP and [[Office 2003]]
*[[Microsoft Excel]] 2002, Microsoft Excel 2003, and Microsoft Excel 2007 for speaking spreadsheet data
*[[Microsoft Voice Command]] for Windows Pocket PC and Windows Mobile
*[[JAWS (screen reader)|JAWS]] screen reader
*[[NonVisual Desktop Access]] (NVDA), a free and open source screen reader
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==See also==
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