[bookport] problem with sapi 5 voices
- From: "Missy Hoppe" <melissah@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "Blind Cool Tech" <BlindCoolTech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:26:55 -0400
Hello, all. I'm experiencing a very strange problem with my computer. I
just purchased book wizard reader and it came with Mike, the ATT natural
voice. Somehow, I had thought that it was going to include both Mike and
Crystal, but that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I installed everything
with no problem on Tuesday, and everything seemed to be working perfectly
until this morning. When I go into the speech section of the windows XP's
control panel, I receive the following message:
"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 can proceed from there; it takes me to the speech recognition tab, wich
isn't what I want, but anyway, I can ctrl+tab to get to the text to speech
settings. I can still choose my 1 Cepstral voice, the 2 L&H voices which
came with the Kitchen games I have installed and the 3 microsoft voices,
but if I try to select AT&T Mike, I receive the following error:
"Speech Properties
This voice cannot be played. Please try selecting another voice or
selecting a different audio output device.
OK"
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the AT&T natural voices software
several times, and nothing seems to make a difference. The voice isn't even
removed from my list of available voices when I uninstall it. If anyone has
any ideas on what could have happened and how I might go about fixing it, I
would very much appreciate it. I'm not comfortable playing around in my
registry, but if there's any other method I can try to resolve this issue,
I'd very much appreciate hearing about it.
This wouldn't be so much of a problem, except that I had set up Mike as the
voice for Book Wizard Reader and then told it to be self-voicing. Also, my
Kitchen games have stopped working.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide in this matter, and I
hope that everyone is having a great day.
Missy
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