Has anyone been able to use SAPI5 voices with VA?

[Ryan E. Geiger]

This program is basically the best, one question though:

Right now, VoiceAttack only seems to pull the voices listed in the SAPI4 control panel within Windows 8 (Located: %SystemRoot%\System32\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl).  However, most of the better voices I have installed are SAPI5 voices.  These can be used within Windows as the default voice and are accessible by programs like ACT (Advanced Combat Tracker) and other programs that just pull the "default system voice" within the OS.  These voices can be found via a DIFFERENT control panel located here: %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl

SAPI5 voices include voices from AcapelaGroup and AT&T etc.  Again, these can be used within Windows 8 as the default voice, and are usable by other programs that make calls to the SAPI engine, however VA seems to only pull from the SAPI4 control panel for the default system voice for some reason. 

Has anyone found a way to get this to interface with the SAPI5 default voice?

[Luca D]

If, instead of using "default", you pull down the voice combo box, do you see a different list of voices listed? (in my system, they are the same, regardless of which control panel applet i open, the System32 or SysWOW64 one)

Also, i think there's also the 32bit/64bit issue to consider; VA is running x64 code on x64 system, so it can access only x64 voices, as far as i know.

[Ryan E. Geiger]

You would think that in that case, it would be pulling from the SysWOW64 cpl on 64bit systems, but it's not...

Here's some more info: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/c7409091-087e-48f2-8178-bcd918799054/add-tts-voice-to-windows-7-and-set-as-default?forum=w7itproinstall

[Luca D]

Actually it's the other way around... the SysWOW64 folder is for 32bit compatibility, while the System32 folder has 64 bit components (yeah, i know... they really did this kind of naming mess)
see here: http://www.samlogic.net/articles/32-64-bit-windows-folder-x86-syswow64.htm

[Ryan E. Geiger]

Is there a way to force the program to run in 32bit mode then?  This would explain a lot, even why ACT and other programs  (that are likely 32bit binaries) work fine. 

 

-Ryan

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[Xen Xennon]

I followed the instructions here: https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/147385/voice-attack-getting-free-alternate-tts-voices-working-with-win7-8-64bit

and now my VA uses whatever I have set via the control panel as my default computer voice.  In my case it's Emma (ivona SAPI5).

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