well, when i tried it, sapi 5.3 still worked but the older voices wouldn't and still won't work. tried this on vista and now have windows 7.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, > I would also like to add if you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 > don't install the Sapi 5.1 runtime or SDK as that will make the problem > worse. Vista and above use Sapi 5.3, and installing an older version of > Sapi isn't exactly the smartest thing a person can do. I tried it once, > trying to get the older speech voices, and blew Sapi 5.3 up completely. > It required a rather lengthy and painful process to get 5.3 back up and > working again. > > Cheers! > > On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 03:54 -0500, Jim Kitchen wrote: >> Hi Charles, >> >> I am very sad to hear that the sapi voices are not working for you with my >> games. I know that more and more programs like Jaws are shipping with sapi >> voices that only work with that program. I bet because they are much >> cheaper to license and distribute that way. >> >> I could put the sapi5 speech developers kit up on Send Space for you. I >> think that it contains the Microsoft sapi5 text to speech engine and might >> get your voices working again. Below I am putting all of the sapi5 fixes >> that I know of. I really would recommend the first one first. >> >> >> The first thing that I would try would be the DelUserLex.exe file that you >> can find on my free windows sapi5 text to speech games page, as well as on >> the GW Micro and Freedom Scientific sites. It is a strange file in that it >> doesn't say or seem to do anything, but it did fix my sapi5 voices. >> >> Here is another fix that I was told about. >> Go to c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech >> Then, press enter on Sapisvr.exe. It won't say anything, but it should >> correct the control panel entries for Sapi. >> >> Another thing that you can do is to use the Windows XP restore feature to >> restore your computer back to a date when the voices were working. >> >> And then there is to use your Windows XP cd to repair the entire sapi5 text >> to speech engine. >> >> you can download (SpeechSDK51MSM.exe). >> which contains all of the Microsoft Sapi voices available for Windows XP from >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&displaylang=en >> >> >> HTH > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
