Category: Geeks r Us
For some reason all of a sudden nothing that uses sapi 5 on my computer is working; narrator won't run, games that use the sapi 5 voices don't work and in speech in the control panel when i try to get the voices to speak an error comes up and says something about the voices won't play. i've tried sam, mike and mary but none of them work. i tried using a program called deluserlex i think but it didn't seem to do anything. any suggestions for fixing my sapi5 so that narrator and stuff work again would be greatly appreciated.
I'd recommend googling for SayPadXP.exe that's got sapi five in it.
i found that and ran it; a thing came up that said something about i have sapi5 and it would reinstall a certain part of the same version and then after that the sapi5 installation thing came up and i installed it and restarted the computer but it still didn't work. even the SayPad program doesn't work with sapi5. it won't read the files when i type in them or anything and narrator and sapi5 in general still doesn't work. is there a way to somehow reinstall the microsoft text to speech engine? it seems like that's what's gotten messed up because i've tried other voices with sapi5 but none will work anymore.
on the kitchensinc website there is a repare tool for that speach engine.
Click on the first lin on that page and you will see it.
I know for a fact it works because I've had the same problem as you and have had to use it.
Wow! thanks for sharing that one! excellent...
If that doesn't work download the SPch sdk51 from microsoft.com/speech it's the sapi 5 kit and will reinstall all the original voices plus some aditional languages.
if you knew when this all started, you could have restored your system to an earlier date and time. maybe that would work? I don't know.