The Windows and Mac voices are licensed for non-commercial, non-profit personal, educational and research purposes.The following is not a FLOSS solution, but you may find it worthwhile. On iPad, the voices must be built into the app by the app developer and only some apps offer Scottish voices: refer to the Text Reader and Communication Aid pages to find out which can speak Scottish.

The voices work with most Android text-to-speech and communication apps. just the voice you need on your communication device when ordering a pint in a pub on Sauchiehall Street?Īndroid users can buy CereProc voices for 59p each from the Google Play Store. Glaswegians might be interested in Dodo, for example. You can also buy Windows and Mac versions of all CereProc's other voices from their online Store. If you don't, you can purchase Windows and MacOS voices from the CALL Scotland shop. If the answer is yes or you meet the criteria in the list below then you can download the Windows and Mac voices for free! Or, do you require the voice for home use for a school pupil?.Do you have a valid Scottish school, public sector, College or University email address?.The Scottish voices are particularly important now that there is a legislative duty on the provision of communication equipment in Scotland that gives children and adults in Scotland 'the right to the communication equipment and the support they need to use their communication equipment'.

The licence covers Windows and Mac computers and devices. The voices are licenced for schools, colleges, universities and NHS patients. All the voices are created by CereProc, a world leading speech synthesis company in Edinburgh. The Scottish Government funds CALL Scotland to provide Scotland-wide schools licences to Heather and Stuart (adult Scottish) Ceitidh (adult Scottish Gaelic) Andrew and Mairi, our new Scottish child voices and Isla and Callum (teenage voices).

Speak, using a voice output communication aid with a Scottish voice.

Read and listen to Scottish educational and information resources spoken using Scottish synthetic voices.

We believe there is a strong cultural and educational imperative for pupils, students and people with disabilities in Scotland to be able to:

Scottish text to speech free