[bookport] Re: problem with sapi 5 voices
- From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:37:14 -0400
Missy:
Perhaps, I'm not understanding exactly what you are wanting to do here,
but try this: Try going into the Control Panel, Add and Remove
Programs, pick the AT&T Mike, and pick the Change tab. At this point,
it will bring up the Install shield, then you should see another box
with three Radio buttons for Modify, Repair, or Install. Try picking
the Repair button. Then, see if it works with your other programs.
Then, you can try to uninstall if you want. Incidentally, you can go
into the Setting menu in Book Wizard and choose another voice from your
PC.
If that doesn't help, perhaps Larry or one of the others will have a
better idea.
Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY 40206
PHONE: 1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307
>>> melissah@xxxxxxxx 07/13/06 08:26PM >>>
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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