Missy, Sorry to say that I am not able to help you out with your voice problem. However, I am going to be nosey and ask you what are "kitchen games"? Thanks, Annette -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Missy Hoppe Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 8:27 PM To: Blind Cool Tech Cc: Book Port Subject: [bookport] problem with sapi 5 voices 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