Narrator support of At&T Natural Voices

[Guest]

I'm working with a client who is blind and been using Narrator in XP Home to
speak the screen text to him. Recently he purchased AT&T Natural Voices as
an upgrade to the existing MS Sam voice. The voices loaded correctly and in
the configuration windows you can select the AT&T voices. You can also
preview them. The problem is that the Narrator program continues to use the
MS Sam voice. Are At&T voices supported? Did I miss a step in the selection
of voices? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

AT&T Online Customer Technical Support
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/support/

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I'm working with a client who is blind and been using Narrator in XP Home to
| speak the screen text to him. Recently he purchased AT&T Natural Voices as
| an upgrade to the existing MS Sam voice. The voices loaded correctly and in
| the configuration windows you can select the AT&T voices. You can also
| preview them. The problem is that the Narrator program continues to use the
| MS Sam voice. Are At&T voices supported? Did I miss a step in the selection
| of voices? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Carey,
Why didn't I think of that. Shame on me for assuming MS had anything to do
with it. Oh yeah, Bill Gates rocks...He should make MORE money,and anybody
who doesnt like that can always invent the next successful OS and be richest.

Yeah...... ....Thats what I forgot to say.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Logic would dictate that problems with a third-party
program are best solved consulting the third-party
who wrote the program. Bill Gates had nothing to
do with your issue.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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"Tom needs Narrator help" wrote:

| Thanks Carey,
| Why didn't I think of that. Shame on me for assuming MS had anything to do
| with it. Oh yeah, Bill Gates rocks...He should make MORE money,and anybody
| who doesnt like that can always invent the next successful OS and be richest.
|
| Yeah...... ....Thats what I forgot to say.

 

[ken]

Unfortunately MS coded Narrator so that it will only use the Sam voice.

Ken White
NextUp.com
Listen and Get Smart
http://www.NextUp.com

** TextAloud - The world's most popular Text To Speech tool.
http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/

 

[Guest]

Once again I applaude your fantastic intelligence. Really... no joking. But
I'm left to wonder, based on Ken's response, why MS wouldn't support these
voices or any others. I'm working with Vista on two lab machines and the TTS
seems to be unchanged...
And regarding Bill... He still ROCKS

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ken!
As I said to Carey, I'm left to wonder why MS wouldn't support these voices
or any others. Is it because you guys are to hard to compete with. I guess
it doesnt matter now. I'll need to migrate the client to the TextAloud
software. I wish I had known this before training him for the Narrator key
strokes. Does TA speak the desktop items and anything typed or moused over?
If not, can you possibly suggest an alternate product that has this level of
functionality?

Thx,
Tom needs psych, I meant Narrator, help

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

....and why shouldn't he make more money? Good for him!


| Logic would dictate that problems with a third-party
| program are best solved consulting the third-party
| who wrote the program. Bill Gates had nothing to
| do with your issue.
|
| --
| Carey Frisch
| Microsoft MVP
| Windows - Shell/User
| Microsoft Community Newsgroups
| news://msnews.microsoft.com/
|
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| "Tom needs Narrator help" wrote:
|
|| Thanks Carey,
|| Why didn't I think of that. Shame on me for assuming MS had anything to
do
|| with it. Oh yeah, Bill Gates rocks...He should make MORE money,and
anybody
|| who doesnt like that can always invent the next successful OS and be
richest.
||
|| Yeah...... ....Thats what I forgot to say.
|

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How To Configure and Use Text-to-Speech in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306902

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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:

| Once again I applaude your fantastic intelligence. Really... no joking. But
| I'm left to wonder, based on Ken's response, why MS wouldn't support these
| voices or any others. I'm working with Vista on two lab machines and the TTS
| seems to be unchanged...
| And regarding Bill... He still ROCKS