If you preview the voice, you will notice it is the same one used by the Cortana assistant. Now you will see a new voice option, Microsoft Eva Mobile.
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You can read the full instructions for enabling Microsoft Eva in the Windows 10 Creators Update here (). We need to do a little work to enable ‘Eva’, the voice of Cortana. Microsoft is apparently trying to keep Cortana all to themselves. By default in Windows 10, you get three Text-to-Speech voices: David, Zira, and Mark. NET class SpeechSynthesizer.Įnabling the Microsoft Eva Voice (aka Cortana) in Windows 10įirst, we are going to take care of a non-PowerShell prerequisite. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to audio files with a consistent voice, and in an efficient manner? We can, with PowerShell and Windows 10’s Text-to-Speech capability, powered by the. If that weren’t enough, it takes TIME to record prompts manually! The more you have the longer it will take, even if you get every recording right on the first try. All of these factors can create an inconsistent user experience when interacting with the call prompts. Maybe the speaker had a cold one the day of recording. The speaker may have tripped over a word but decided not to record the prompt over again. There may be feedback noise on the recording.
Have you ever called a support line and had to listen to a bunch of different recorded scripts, also known as “prompts”? The prompts may be the voice of a single person or a combination of different people (maybe the original voice left the company). Finding a Universal Voice: A Universal Problem Use Windows 10’s Text-to-Speech capability and Cortana’s voice to create WAV audio from within a PowerShell script.