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January 12, 2022
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Adobe Audition v22 - Text to Speech voices are limited to only two choices.

  • January 12, 2022
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I’m new to using Adobe Audition. This software and Premiere Pro have been deployed to my workstation from the Creative Cloud licensing agreement my employer has in place. My operating system is Windows10.

 

I need to use the Text to Speech feature in Adobe Audition v22 to create audio files for videos.   I have not used previous versions of Audition and i've started a brand new project for testing this feature.

 

In Adobe Audition, i seem to be limited to two choices in voices: Microsoft Office – English (United States) 1 female - Zira or 1 male - David. I have downloaded the English (Canada) and French (Canada) language packs available for free from  Microsoft Office onto my computer. When I follow the online tutorial on how to change the text to speech language followed by a restart of the computer,  it does change it on my computer. However, when i go back into Audition and into the Effect - Generate Speech screen options, Language is greyed out and shows only 'English (United States)' and if i select the 'Settings' button on the same screen, it shows the same.

 

 

Any help would be very appreciated.

Ty.

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_durin_
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 12, 2022

Audition can only display what voices are installed on the operating system itself.  None of the voices available are supplied by Adobe.

GreyceAuthor
Inspiring
January 13, 2022

Ty _durin for confirming my suspicions about the issue. I'll be calling our Help Desk folks who have more admin rights for help in downloading more voice packs today.  Glad this is not an Adobe issue 🙂

 

Really appreciate this Adobe Support Community !

GreyceAuthor
Inspiring
January 13, 2022

Hello again,

 

I have an update on this issue. Today our network adminstrators were successful in downloading a number of language packages to my WIN10 OS. I thought I was good to go but then launched Adobe Audition v22 and although I can now see two addition voices English (Great Britain) and French (France), for some reason I don't see the English (Canada), English (Austrailia) or French (Canada). Any ideas why not the complete list? I'm using Adobe Audition Creative Cloud version. Does the desktop vs cloud version have any impact on this situation?

See my screenshot below:

 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 12, 2022

This is Microsoft's fault...

Don't try clicking on 'Settings' because that doesn't do anything. You have to click on the voice selection line itself to reveal whatever it is you've downloaded.

GreyceAuthor
Inspiring
January 13, 2022

Ty Steve. I did as you suggested and was still only presented with the two options. I am planning to contact our network administrator today, as i believe their admin access will allow more voice packages to be downloaded.