The SAPI 4 versions of Microsoft Sam, Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary can be used on Windows XP, Vista and later with a third-party program (like Speakonia and TTSReader) installed on the machine that supports these operating systems however, the speech patterns differed from the SAPI 5 versions of these voices. SAPI 4 redistributable versions were downloadable for Windows 9x, although they are no longer from the Microsoft website. While SAPI 5 versions of Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are downloadable only as a Merge Module, the installable versions may be installed on end users' systems by speech applications such as Microsoft Reader. SAPI 4 voices are only available on Windows 2000 and later Windows NT-based operating systems, but are also available as a download on Windows 9x operating systems as well. 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.
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