Selecting Lucent Text-to-Speech Voice and Language

To use voices from the Lucent text-to-speech engine, select the voice in the selection dialog as follows:

From the menu bar, click Tools ... Digital Voice Selection.

Under text-to-speech engine the Lucent voices are found with names ending in "-T", "-TE", "-TD", and "-TED". The meanings of these extensions are as follows:

• -T : Generic voice for most voice modems and telephony cards (including Brooktrout).
• -TE : Voice with e-mail pre-processing for most voice modems and telephony cards (including Brooktrout).
• -TD : Generic voice for most Dialogic cards.
• -TED : Voice with e-mail pre-processing for most Dialogic cards.

The various speakers that are listed are for different languages as follows:

• John / Grace : American English.
• Pierre / Madeleine : Continental French.
• Jacques / Yvette : Canadian French.
• Rainer / Monika : German.
• Carlo / Giulia : Italian.
• Pedro / Juanita : Castilian Spanish.
• Pablo / Carmen : Mexican Spanish.
• Ming : Mandarin Chinese.

"Mike" and "Mary" voices are powered by the Microsoft text-to-speech engine.

Once a Lucent voice has been selected, that voice will be used by default when processing Call Trees.