TTS tab missing from Speech Properties; TTS not working

[Guest mrceolla@gmail.com]

Hello,

 

Please forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong place. Please

recommend a better group if one exists.

 

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 turned 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