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SAPI Voices

Current Penfriend products are compatible with SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices, meaning that you can download additional speech engines for reading out your predictions, screen, and so on.

There are some voices which cost money, and others which are freely downloadable. The licence conditions of each supplier vary, and Penfriend Ltd is not responsible for checking that your usage meets their terms.

You may already have some of these installed on your computer as part of other applications. If you want one or more of the voices noted here, download them onto your computer and then install them. You may need to be logged in as administrator. Similarly if you are installing SAPI4 voices you may need to install the SAPI4 runtime.

Free Downloads for SAPI5

• espeak There is now a free SAPI 5 voice produced by Jonathan Duddington and freely available. This is developed from the voice that was used in Penfriend W3. It works excellently for screen reading with Penfriend XL.

Free Downloads for SAPI4

• SAPI 4.0 runtime. You may already have this. It is needed for the SAPI4 voices below.
• American English from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• British English from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• French from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• German from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• Italian from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• Spanish from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• Dutch from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)
• Portuguese from L&H/Microsoft (SAPI4)

SDKs and Paid Downloads

• Microsoft Agent (SAPI4) speech engine downloads
• Microsoft SAPI5.1
• Microsoft SAPI 4.0a
• Acapela, formerly Elan Speech