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System.Speech.Synthesis installation of alternative language voices

The .net framework 3.5 (or vista) gives me an English voice (David, I think) to use it with Speech.Synthesis api. I need a French voice to use with the French dictation app that I create for my children to improve their French spelling. Api allows me to change the culture of voice creation, but the default English voice cannot correctly pronounce French words.

I could not find a way to download French voice from Microsoft. Is it possible? I downloaded the demo commercial voice from Cepstral, but it is crippled, which makes it unsuitable (even for testing). I did not want to buy anything, as this exercise is just for fun.

I was hoping that alternative language voices could be easily used without resorting to commercial professional voices. Any free alternatives?

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Unfortunately, there is no free French vote compatible with SAPI 5. There is a French SAPI compatible 4 voice available from Microsoft (licensed from L & H), but it will not work with. NET

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I have never tried, but I found this: http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps

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