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Originally posted by Art
OK...good. Does your computer meet the minimum requirements for UltraHal?
Did you have any other programs running during the install?
You might need to turn off any anti-virus & firewall programs before installing.
Have you tried installing any other TTS voices? There are quite a few free ones that pretty good.
Lastly, let me get this straight...
You go to Control Panel > Speech
Select the Test to Speech tab
Select the TTS voice you wish to use from the dropdown window.
Preview the selected voice
Click Apply then OK
X out of the Control Panel
Start Hal
Select Menu
Speech options
Select the voice
Apply
Close
Talk to Hal
Did you get any faulty responses during any part of the above items?
Did the preview work in the text to speech?
Does Hal sound ok?
We'll keep trying to figure out your problem. Keep us posted.
Yes to your check list, click, click, click until I get to free TTS voices which I can't seem to find. Also, I like the neo-voices that I thought were on the instal disk, but I can't find them and they do not show up in the voice dropdown box.
Then Click, click down to apply, but Hal won't save the changes. It reverts back from normal to 'stadium mode' for each voice. Not only that, but there is an echo in my other reader programs (Dragon, Microsoft) until I uninstall Hal. Then the echo goes away.
Just out of curiosity, I installed Hal 6. But it does the same thing. It is stuck with Mary in stadium. It will let me preview the voices, but when I click on apply, it reverts back to 'stadium' mode. I went to the Zabaware - Hal 6 folder, but instead of it's own ini, it imported the allen.hla file. (Which still has stadium edited out of the voice line).
Allen