Very cool! That will be a huge improvement. I'll check out the wiki app again, thanks for the tip!
Actually that article only mentions that the wiki app can use Cortana for text input (speech-to-text). What I was asking is if apps can use the Cortana voice to read to US (text to speech, TTS). Is that also possible?
Not sure but I hope developers will soon develop some nice apps once windows phone 8.1 is widely available.
Well duh! Does anyone else happen to know of the WP8.1 enables using text-to-speech conversion in Cortana's voice?
Hi Tobi, thanks for commenting here! Could you look at the links that Himanshu shared? They seem to indicate that there is a way to do this, but since I'm not a coder I might be overlooking something / everything.
Hi Joe, hi all.
Here is Tobi from Poki.
I am currently developing the next major version of Poki with improved TTS support.
Sadly it is not possible to use Cortanas voice at the moment, and I don't think this will change as the SDK for WP8.1 is done already.
The available voices for en-US are Zira and Mark, who you already know and hate from Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.
But at least they sound better than Microsoft Sam ;-)
I've tested this with a en-US Lumia 920 running Windows Phone 8.1 (with Cortana enabled).
I'm sure the dev is too polite for self-promotion, so allow me: If you use Pocket and haven't tried Poki yet, it's worth a look:
Poki | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)