Text to Speech not working; seeking MS expert

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Hello,

Please forgive me if this is the wrong group. Please

I have been searching and posting and can not find any solution to my
problem. I need to find an MS expert that knows all there is to know
about the builtin text to speech fuctionality of Windows.

I actually have a SBS 2003 server, but the server and sbs groups were
no help, this is why I'm trying here.

I have a fully updated SBS 2003 install. I have some home automation
and answering machine software that can use TTS to announce various
events. This is why I am wanting it to work. Needless to say, it
does not.


When I go to Start-->Control Panel-->Speech, I have only 1 tab,
Speech
Recognition. I should have another tab labeled Text To Speech. I do
not and I do not know why.


The system was built/installed w/ the onboard audio disabled.
I have recently enabled the onboard audio. All other audio seems to
work fine (WMP, DirectSound, System Sounds). I do not know if the
TTS
tab was available before this change or not, but I know it's not
there
now.


I have searched everywhere and found little, but I have tried to 2
things that did not work


1. I located sapi.inf, right-clicked, chose Install
2. Downloaded and installed the Microsoft Speech 5.1 SDK


Still no tab and TTS still will not work.


Please help me locate a solution to this problem. Again, I apologize
if this is the wrong group for this question (the sbs group told me I
shouldn't post there already). Please suggest a more suitable group
if you know of one.


Thank you,
Mike

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