Hi Sandra, In my experience SAPI4 breaks entirely when one of the individual SAPI4 engines breaks. Or in English, it may be that one SAPI4 voice on your system is broken, and that's stopping all your SAPI4 voices working. Usually this happens when someone installs something that puts on a broken SAPI4 voice. Have you installed or upgraded anything recently? Before reformatting everything, try uninstalling any programs you've recently installed. Anything from Nuance, ScanSoft or RealSpeak, including Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Omnipage OCR are likely suspects. If you're technical there are more things you can try here: http://help.clarodownloads.com/problemsWithClaroReadStarting.php#problemsWithClaroReadStarting.php_10 Best wishes, Alasdair King WebbIE On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Steve Nutt <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sandra, > > Why are you wanting to use SAPI 4 Eloquence? Why not use the direct drivers > from your screen reader vendor? What screen reader and version do you have? > > All the best > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > whizza > Sent: Wednesday 30 September 2009 09:38 > To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [access-uk] Re: My Sapi Voices won't Work any more! > > Well, Martin, on the few occasions I've used system restore, programs I've > installed after an earlier restore point didn't quite work correctly and on > one occasion, having got rid of a virus, when I used a restore point the > virus re-appeared so I just prefer to turn it off. Personal preference > really I suppose. > > Cheers, > Sandra. > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] > ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ** and in the Subject line type > ** unsubscribe > ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the > ** immediately-following link:- > ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] > ** or send a message, to > ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq > > -- Alasdair King ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq