The .net framework 3.5 (or vista) provides me with an English voice (David I think) to use with the Speech.Synthesis api. I need a french voice to use with a french dictation practice app I am building for my kids to use to improve their french spelling. The api allows me to change culture when creating a voice, but the default English voice cannot pronounce the french words correctly.
I have been unable to find any way to download a french voice from Microsoft. Is this possible? I did download a Demo commercial voice from Cepstral, but it is crippled in a way that makes it unusable (even for testing). I did not want to buy anything as this exercise is just for fun.
I had hoped alternative language voices might be easily had without resort to the commercial professional voices. Any free alternatives?