other voices apart from microsoft sam?

[pow3rslave]

so i've got this thing in my car called a music keg, it's a kenwood hard disk stacker, and the head unit reads info from the id3 tags as you scroll through folders/artists/tracks.

only thing is, it creates the voice tags using whatever voice engine you have installed on your pc, and i only have the default Microsoft Sam voice, so my car stereo sounds like stephen hawking.

anyone suggest free other voice engines?

[Paytz]

Whats your problem with stephen hawking??? That dude can pull some hawt birds

[stocky]

get the knight rider voice haha

[Nevyn]

so i've got this thing in my car called a music keg, it's a kenwood hard disk stacker, and the head unit reads info from the id3 tags as you scroll through folders/artists/tracks.

only thing is, it creates the voice tags using whatever voice engine you have installed on your pc, and i only have the default Microsoft Sam voice, so my car stereo sounds like stephen hawking.

anyone suggest free other voice engines?

mmm.....wanna explain the music keg for me? I've been looking at building a car pc for all me music n movies, but this might work better.

[pow3rslave]

it's a thing that kenwood used to make that uses a cartridge with a 2.5" laptop drive inside, came stock with a 10gig disk inside, but you can open it and hack it and put a new bigger drive in, they were stuck at 127GB drives, but now i hear they're up to supporting 160 gig drives.

kenwood doesn't make them anymore, but they are made for vw, audi etc, called the phatbox and it's the same unit.
it plugs in to the stacker input in the back of my kdc mp6029 head unit, though others are likely supported, basically hitting the '2 ' key goes between searching by artist, album, genre and... something. it reads it out as "the current artist is... etc"
but i usually just go go by artist. pressing left to right on the joystickey thing on the head unit scrolls artist name, hilding left or right scrolls through letters of the alphabet, up and down changes tracks. it reads out album names and all that, but not track names, they just show up on the display.

i probably haven't explained it all that well. i'll try to get a video, anyway here's a forum/site about modding them
PhatHack - Index
Main Page - PhatHack Wiki

[Nevyn]

thanks for that...very helpful