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Hello,

In Windows XP>Control Panel there is Speech folder and in it one

male voice (Sam) , which plays fine.

Does it mean that speech engine is installed on that computer?

I am asking because my code:

engine = TTS1.Find("Mfg=Microsoft;Gender=1")

TTS1.Select engine



returns 0 for engine.



Your comments please.


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"Jack" <replyto@newsgroup>wrote in message

You may need to install the Speech SDK. Have a look at

msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/">msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/ down around number 42.

Ive never looked at the speech sdk or the speech engine, so that's all I

know.



HTH,

Mark.





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Yes, a TTS engine comes installed on Windows XP. But it is based around the

SAPI 5 API, but the code you are writing is using SAPI 4, and the two are

not compatible.



You can download the associated SAPI 5 SDK {which installs additional

voices, samples, documentation, speech recognition engines etc.} at

www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/">www.microsoft.com/speech/download/sdk51/



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