Hi Doris,
Strainge. I have seen this fixed many times with a reinstall.
All the best
Steve
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Chris & Doris
Sent: Monday 13 October 2008 06:22
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP
Hey, Steve,
No, I actualy had tried that befoer with a few extra steps that
actually deleted the potentially corrupted files befoer reinstalling
sapi 5 but i still get this error mesage:
begin quote
Speech Properties
The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine
could not be created. Please select a
different engine and/or a different audio device.
OK
end quote
Thanks much and God Bless,
Doris
At 07:43 PM 10/12/2008 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Doris,
>
>If you install the sapi5.inf as I outlined, you should cure your speech
>recognition error too.
>
>All the best
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of
>Chris & Doris
>Sent: Sunday 12 October 2008 18:51
>To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP
>
>The ssapi that comes with win xp is sapi 5.1 and not sapi 4. Sapi 4
>came with win 2k.
>
>I'll send you a asapi repair tool off list that you can try. If that
>doesn't work, you can try to reinstall sapi 5 from your xp cd.
>
>I am also having the speech recognition engine error and have not
>been able to fix that yet but that should not impact your being able
>to change the default tts voice.
>
>I'm intersted to see wwhat solutions people come up with.
>
>Cheers,
>
>doris
>
>At 05:40 PM 10/12/2008 +0100, you wrote:
> >Folks,
> >
> >Here's a new one.
> >
> >I can't change the default TTS Engine under control panel/speech.
> >
> >I can preview the voices but when I hit apply it comes up with,
> >"RUNDLL
> >An exception occurred while trying to run
> >"C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program
> >Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech"
> >OK "
> >
> >I downloaded and ran SAPI4's suite from,
> >
>
><http://www.o2a.com/SpeechDownload.htm>http://www.o2a.com/SpeechDownload.ht
>m
> >
> >and it installed, "Microsoft Speech SDK 4.0 and engines
> >Microsoft Voice, Microsoft Dictation, and the Microsoft Speech SDKOK "
> >
> >Convinced this would fix it.... It did not.
> >
> >
> >Furthermore when I launch the Speech Applet I get,
> >
> >"Speech Properties
> >The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary
> >engine could not be created. Please select a
> >different engine and/or a different audio device.
> >OK "
> >
> >I've SP3 on the machine but had these problems with SP2 as well. I
> >was actually hoping there would be a Hot Fix in SP3 that would have
> >fixed
>it.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >Dj Paddy
>
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