Additional Voices for Ascendis Caller ID

The following voices are offered by Ascendis Software partners, and have been tested with Ascendis Caller ID. Please listen to the demos or samples and decide for yourself what sounds best.

US$29.99 (each voice)

Cepstral offers a wide variety of voices supporting five languages. All voices are available in download form only, and they range in size from 23 MB to 102 MB. Trial versions of most voices are available through the Download button. When purchasing, please remember to choose the "Windows" version for use with Ascendis Caller ID.

(Technical Note: These Cepstral voices are SAPI5 compatible and will only work with applications like Ascendis Caller ID that support SAPI5.)

US$35.00 (two voices)

NeoSpeech provides high quality, natural sounding voices. Each voice requires slightly under 300 MB of disk space, and is available on CD or via download.

Kate16 - 16khz US English Female     Play Sample Paul16 - 16khz US English Male     Play Sample

The voices are offered in both 16khz and 8khz versions. The 16khz versions sound better and should be purchased for use with Ascendis Caller ID. The 8khz voices (not listed above, but available on the purchase page) may be appropriate for other programs that play speech over the telephone.

(Technical Note: These NeoSpeech voices are SAPI5 compatible and will only work with applications like Ascendis Caller ID that support SAPI5.)

Technical Details

Ascendis Caller ID works with voices that support Microsoft's Speech API versions 4 and 5, otherwise known as SAPI4 and SAPI5. Windows 2000 includes SAPI4, and Windows XP includes SAPI5. SAPI4 can be installed under Windows 98 (and is included in the Ascendis Caller ID TTS installer). Thus, any SAPI4 voice should work with Ascendis Caller ID in Windows 98 and Windows 2000, and any SAPI5 voice should work with Ascendis Caller ID in Windows XP. SAPI5 can be installed in Windows 2000 using this SAPI5 installer, allowing the use of SAPI5 voices on that platform.