Hi Dave, my computer is set to English (Canada) and speaks it. Anything thru the EZB though speaks the British female voice.

yep, DJ would have to take a look into it I think.

Please use this thread and do not create duplicate threads. This is it a bug - as it's behavior of Microsoft's speech synthesis engine. Terms of use for installing third party voices are not covered by Microsoft. I would recommend contacting the manufacturer of the third party voices and revisiting the installation procedure.

This may not be the preferred answer - however, there is nothing that can be done from ezrobot to change the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Thanks DJ, I'm trying to understand why my program has changed and why others get male and female voice options with this control and I don't. I have not changed anything on my computer. The only thing I did was not use the program for my robot for a couple of months. Also, if I buy a male voice will it come thru the V4 as a male voice?

Bob,

I suspect that your Windows system probably got the Windows 10 anniversary update and it more than likely messed up any changes you did that got the voices working properly.

Microsoft has seriously messed up SAPI5 (the speech API) over the past few releases, and different editions (home/pro/Enterprise) and different countries of sale each have their own set of issues.

I am on my phone so searching is tricky, but I think Steve G did a good tutorial on getting Cepestral voices working, and despite needing to pay for them, I think that is the best option.

The issue with the various settings in the speech object not working is due to the fact that not every voice effect or feature is available on every voice.

Alan

Thanks Alan, so if I buy a male voice it will come thru the v4 as a male voice?

Yes, a male voice will come out as male. You may need to delete the default voices to get Windows to use it (which is wjat was covered in Steve's tutorial).

Alan

I'll look at the tutorial. I have the default male voice in operation on my computer now so I'm still confused as to why it won't come thru the v4.