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Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 1:14 PM

Sound Forge Pro 18 MAGIX Hub Text to Speech downloads are still not working.

The "Generate Preview" works fine, but when I download the audio the download is digital white noise.

The program worked fine during the trial period, but after I purchased additional characters it no longer works.

Thank you for your support.

SP. wrote on 3/1/2025, 1:59 PM

@Paul-Weiler If it doesn't work over a week I would suspect that it's something on your end. Otherwise the forum would likely be full of similar reports.

Have you tried to reset the program settings under the File menu?

Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 2:17 PM

Thank you for your comment.

As you suggested, I reset the program settings under the File menu, and I deleted all cached application data.

The Text to Speech downloads are still not working (see attachment).

I have a question: Where are the files I am downloading created?

Thank you for your support.

rraud wrote on 3/1/2025, 4:57 PM

SFP-18 Text-to-Speech works with my Win 10 PC. I do not currently have a Win 11 PC to test.

SP. wrote on 3/1/2025, 5:32 PM

@rraud Does your tts files also come back as a 24 kHz 16 Bit Mono file like shown in the screenshots above?

Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 5:51 PM

Thank you for helping me solve this problem.

My operating system is Windows 11.

Yes, my tts files come back as 16bit, 24kHz Mono files.

The text I am trying to convert to speech is from a pdf file. I am dragging and dropping the text into the MAGIXHub program. Perhaps this is the problem. Does anyone know what files can be dragged and dropped into MAGICHub?

I will keep trying.

Thank you for your support.

SP. wrote on 3/1/2025, 6:04 PM

@Paul-Weiler What happens if you type in some other text? I wouldn't be surprised if copy-pasting text from a PDF includes some invisible characters that might throw the audio generation off.

Yes, I saw on the screenshots your files are 16bit, 24kHz Mono. I personally can not test this, because I don't own SF18. But maybe @rraud can confirm that this is the same on his TTS files. If not, then this might be one problem why it's just white noise.

 

Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 6:21 PM

For the sake of clarity, I am dropping and dragging text into MAGIXHub (not copying and pasting).

I am going to try a few things.

Thank you for your support.

Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 6:34 PM

This seems to work.

If I open my pdf file in my internet browser (Firefox) and I drag and drop one page of text into MAGICHub, the program creates the proper speech file (see attachment).

rraud wrote on 3/1/2025, 6:56 PM

To retest, I copied / pasted a paragraph of text from a Sound Forge PDF manual to the hub's TTS field and clicked 'download' after choosing the AI 'person' and adjusting the speed and pitch to my liking. A 48k/16 bit mono file was placed on the timeline. The download destination is C:\Users\rraud\AppData\Local\MAGIX\SOUND FORGE Pro\18\.. which is the location I have set for temp and recorded files:  The file name is:
"tts-01-03-2025-19_24_01.wav."

Paul-Weiler wrote on 3/1/2025, 7:06 PM

Thank you again for your support.

If I drag and drop a small amount of text (a page or two) into hub's TTS field, the program works fine.

All the best...