There are both SAPI 4 and SAPI 5 versions of these text-to-speech voices. Michael and Michelle are also optional male and female voices licensed by Microsoft from Lernout & Hauspie, and are available through Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003 or Microsoft Reader. Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system. Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Voices Windows 2000 and Windows XP A speech sample of Microsoft Sam. for both Windows client and server platforms, and mobile voices are often shipped with more recent versions. Client voices are shipped with Windows operating systems server voices are available for download for use with server applications such as Speech Server, Lync etc. There are client, server, and mobile versions of Microsoft text-to-speech voices. The Microsoft text-to-speech voices are speech synthesizers provided for use with applications that use the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) or the Microsoft Speech Server Platform. For the account database, see Security Account Manager.
