I don't know if someone has found out about this, but all SS announcer voice files were generated using an old voice synthesizer software called WillowTalk.

Demonstration:
Image: http://webmup.com/792b3/vid.webm

you can download a free trial of WillowTalk here:

http://www.idg.pl/ftp/willowtalk.html

You know how long I've been looking for this?  You are a godsend!

BTW, the file won't install.  I think my anti-virus is blocking it.  Is there a clean copy of this for download err.....

Used 7Zip to open the self-extractor and manually extracted the install files. Tried to run SETUP.EXE, failed. The installer is apparently 16-bit, which is no longer supported under 64-bit Windows versions.

Could be the only way to install and/or run this is in a virtual machine running an older version of Windows.

The website says it works on XP, so anyone with an XP machine or Win7 Professional (or higher) should be able to install it.

The website says it works on XP, so anyone with an XP machine or Win7 Professional (or higher) should be able to install it.

The self extractor is 32bit so yes, but the SETUP.EXE it extracts is not, it is 16bit which does not run on a 64bit, hence why the website says it only goes as high as  standard XP [32bit].

As I said: If you have Windows 7 Professional or better, you can download Windows Virtual PC and then Windows XP Mode for it for free, either as 32-bit (which you would want here) or 64-bit.


Anyway, if they really used it, they must have either had different voices or they did post-processing on them. Maybe they had the full version and the trial only offers a small assortment?
This was done with the Paul voice:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0DcNGLcVNbq

And this with the Harry voice:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1BZ5o4ZyYef


All other voices do not match the Citadel one at all. You can change the text speed, but that's basically it.

As I said: If you have Windows 7 Professional or better, you can download Windows Virtual PC and then Windows XP Mode for it for free, either as 32-bit (which you would want here) or 64-bit.

You didn't say that before.

You didn't say that before.

Yes, I did.

I bet they used DECtalk. Different versions of software based DECtalk can be found here.

Yes, I did.

Really. Then point out the actual supposed post where you first mentioned Virtual PC.

Really. Then point out the actual supposed post where you first mentioned Virtual PC.

It's post #8. You can install WinXP on any virtual machine that your operating system supports, but only Win7 Professional or higher tiers come with Virtual PC + WinXPMode for free. so I couldn't have referenced any other solution. Granted, I did assume this would be common knowledge but then again, this is a forum full of very smart people.