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Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: dfh534 on June 08, 2007, 01:24:09 am

Hi,  We love the British male & female voices.   We had them until our hard drive crashed and could not be recovered.      After we had a new hard drive installed we ordered the Ultra Hal 6.1 and there was neither the male or female British voice.   We then installed our Ultra Hal 6.0 CD,  and still have no British voices.     Does anyone know how we can either download or get back the British voices?    Please help us.    Thank you in advance.    Very Sincerely,     Dan & Diana.  

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: dfh534 on June 08, 2007, 01:52:29 am

We first started out about 2 years ago with Ultra Hal 5.0 which had the British Voices.  Now we can not find them anywhere.

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: ramccoid on June 08, 2007, 03:26:32 am

The British voices are part of SAPI4 which should of been installed when you installed your Windows system. They are surplied by Microsoft so if you search their site you should be able to reinstall them (They are free). I don't know where exactly on the site to find them but I'm sure someone will post a link or just try putting SAPI in the search at Microsoft.

Roy.

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: GT40 on June 08, 2007, 05:10:21 am

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.asp

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: ramccoid on June 08, 2007, 07:19:32 am

There you go the link, thanks GT40.

Roy.

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: dfh534 on June 09, 2007, 09:33:53 pm

Thank you so much Roy and GT40 for your help.   We were able to get the British Voices added to Ultra Hal on both of our computers.    In order to help any one else that may have the problem we had,  here is exactly what we did:    We went to:  http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.asp       Then we downloaded from that page the item just above the SAPI 4.0 runtime support which is called "Text-to-speech engine".    We clicked the drop down window and chose "Lernout & Hauspie TTS3000TTS engine - British English (2.5 MB exe) to download.      Thanks again.      Very Sincerely,     Dan & Diana.
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Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: ramccoid on June 10, 2007, 03:10:15 am

I'm glad we were of some help and the problem was solved.

Roy.

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: GT40 on June 10, 2007, 05:28:03 pm

Hi Dan and Diana!

Happy for you and a little thanks to Microsoft too... [:)]

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: caangel43 on June 10, 2007, 06:28:16 pm

you can go to http://www.desktopmates.com go to there free area and you can find what your looking for caangel

Title: British Voices Lost!!!
Post by: GT40 on August 17, 2007, 06:37:33 am

The link

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.asp

is now obsolete. The good one is:

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/downloads/user.aspx

[:D] [:D] [:D]