after reading some of the posts I started doing some research on how to replace the system "prompts", such as "the current artist is...." and the alphabet letters "a", "b", etc.
As you know, when you select Crystal as the voice for the DMS artist, album, genre and playlists, the male voice still speaks these prompts, make it it a mix of Mike and Crystal's voices.
I really liked the outcome of what I did, so I figured I should post it.
I used an oline demo of the AT&T Natural Voices, to create WAV files of those prompts. Then I used CoolEdit to convert them to the right Mp3 format.
Here's the link to the online demo
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.phpyou just tupe the phrase and you can save it as a wav file.
I converted the following prompts:
"the current artist is"
"the current album is"
"the current playlist is"
"the current genre is"
and all the alpha letters that are spoken as you search in alphabetic order.
The cool thing is that you can change the prompt to whatever you want. For example, I changed "the current artist is" to "you are listening to", using Crystal's voice.
A useful hint: when using the online tool you can type "a, b, c, d, e" etc, so that you can have one large WAV file with all the letters, and then use an audio editing tool like CoolEdit (now owned by Adobe) to extract each piece to save as separate files, instead of using the demo individually for each letter. That would make the conversion to mp3 a lot more time consuming.
The files that I replaced were in this location:
F: (PHTSYS)\TSS
They were just the
a.alpha.mp3 to z.alpha.mp3
cur0.mp3 to cur3.mpw
Corrupt Track.wav
Obivously, you want to backup the original male voice files first to your computer.
All this took me less than an hour.
good luck
