If you use the Windows XP Narrator, Microsoft Sam will be used regardless of your default SAPI synthesizer. I believe this limitation has been removed in Vista, but can't say on that one. Hope that helps. Chris Hallsworth BrailleNote mPower user Website: www.chrishallsworth.co.nr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:55 PM Subject: RE: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices? The Eloquence that comes with JAWS and the ViaVoice that comes with Kurzweil do not use SAPI 4 or 5. The Eloquence that comes with Window-Eyes is SAPI 4, and I have heard that there never was an Eloquence for SAPI 5. I had no trouble getting Window-Eyes to select and use Espeak from its list of SAPI synthesizers. So you may have been running into a limitation of JAWS or of the way SAPI synthesizers are enumerated. And the Control Panel Speech.cpl applet can set a default SAPI 5 synthesizer, which I think affects Narrator as well as other programs. Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls > -----Original Message----- > From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind- > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:39 AM > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Is there a program that will help you create Sapi5 voices? > > Does anyone know what interface is used by Eloquence? > > It is not SAPI 4 nor 5, and it works better than a SAPI voice. > > The problem with the SAPI voices is that at a certain moment only a single > SAPI5 voice can be active, and in order to change the voice we need to go > into Control Panel/Speech, and changing the active voice there doesn't > always work. > For example, I've tried to use ESpeak sinthesizer, and I couldn't make it > active but only by deleting all others voices from the Registry. > And this was a problem also because Narrator doesn't work without those MS > made voices. > > Does anyone know some books or tutorials for working with these things > under Windows? But of course, not MSDN, because it refers only to ways of > creating sinthesizers which are not used by any good company that creates > sinthesizers. Information about creating sinthesizers that work under > Symbian are also welcome. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind