AT&T Natural Voices

Installing on a non-default drive

If you wish to install individual voices (called "voice fonts") on a drive DIFFERENT THAN the drive on which you installed the AT&T Engine, you must manually edit a configuration file to show the appropriate file locations. You may wish to do this if space is tight on your C-drive. Installing several 16KHz voices can take several GB.

For these instructions, we'll assume that the ENGINE was installed on drive C but the voice called "Mel16" was installed on the F-drive. When following the instructions, substitute the correct drive (and possibly the path) where you actually installed the additional voice fonts.

1. On the F-drive, locate the file called TTS.CFG located in the folder:
   F:\Program Files\ATTNaturalVoices\TTS1.4\Desktop\data
   (or wherever you installed it)
2. Open the tts.cfg file in NotePad
3. Locate the block of information related to the voice you installed. Using Mel as an example:
   Voice mel_16k
   VoiceName Mel16
   VoiceData en_us\mel\mel.dat
   VoiceAudio en_us\mel\dbpcmbec archive
   VoiceLanguage en_us
   VoiceDefault true
   
4. Copy this block of text into the clipboard (highlight and press control-C)
5. Open the tts.cfg file on your C-drive using NotePad
6. At the end of this file, paste the text from the clipboard (control-V)
7. Edit the file paths as follows:
   Voice mel_16k
   VoiceName mel16
   VoiceData F:\Program Files\ATTNaturalVoices\TTS1.4\Desktop\data\en_us\mel\mel.dat
   VoiceAudio F:\Program Files\ATTNaturalVoices\TTS1.4\Desktop\data\en_us\mel\dbpcmbec archive
   VoiceLanguage F:\Program Files\ATTNaturalVoices\TTS1.4\Desktop\data\en_us
   VoiceDefault true
8. Save the tts.cfg file.