Windows 10: Text to Speech not working properly after Upgrade

Discus and support Text to Speech not working properly after Upgrade in Windows 10 Customization to solve the problem; Yesterday I upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 finally. While the update seems to have been successful I am having one issue, my text to speech isn't working.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Customization' started by RFXCasey, Oct 28, 2020.

  1. RFXCasey Win User

    Text to Speech not working properly after Upgrade


    Yesterday I upgraded my Windows 7 to 10 finally. While the update seems to have been successful I am having one issue, my text to speech isn't working. When press the test voice button in the Windows 10 control panel under Speech, the text is highlighted, one word at a time, as it would normally except there is no audible speech. All other Windows sounds appear to be working correctly. I have selected the playback device as my Sound Blaster Z card. I tried installing the UK voices butt those don't play either. I get no error messages. I also thought I heard some faint mumbling when one of the voices was supposed to be playing. Possibly noteworthy, I had the Speech SDK 5.1 pack installed in my Win 7. After having this issue after the upgrade to 10 I installed the Speech SDK 5.1, and then ran SFC /SCAN now, which said if found some corrupt files and repaired them, as well as a DISM /online /cleanup /restorehealth, neither of which fixed to problem. In there a way to reinstall the text to speech engine for Windows 10? Everything else seems to be working and a fresh install is the very, very last thing I want to do.

    :)
     
    RFXCasey, Oct 28, 2020
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  2. freda Win User

    text to speech

    Do you heard of software which can read text in any application and convert text to mp3, wav, ogg or vox files? I known one - Alive Text to Speech , but it is not a free software, i can use it for 20 days.

    Do you recommend a free software?


    Thank you!
     
    freda, Oct 28, 2020
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  3. Douggins Win User
    Speech to Text

    Hello,
    Thank you for guiding me in the right direction.

    I attempted all of the 6 steps recommended above. Only issue was that for step 4, I could not access/did not have access to the "hardware and devices troubleshooter" for whatever reason. Even after a reset of the Surface, I am still unable to set-up the
    speech recognition with the onboard microphone. The sound/audio works just fine for everything else though.

    I have purchased an external microphone for use on other apps and this microphone will suffice for what I intended to accomplish. It has been set up for speech recognition and is working properly. I do have one related question that I have not researched
    in depth: How do I use the speech recognition to perform speech-to-text, into a program such as Word or Scrivener? The best response I found was that I can use it to complete a sentence or two, but not continual speech-to-text similar to Dragon Dictate or
    text messaging on some phones, etc. Can it be set up to perform this continual typing while speaking?

    Thanks again,

    Doug
     
    Douggins, Oct 28, 2020
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  4. Text to Speech not working properly after Upgrade

    Text to speech is no longer working

    Hi,

    To better assist you with the Text to speech issue, please answer the following questions:

    • Which OS build version is currently running on your phone? To check, just go to
      Settings> System> About> More info.
    • Are you getting an error message or code?
    • What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

    Regards.
     
    Rommel Diw, Oct 28, 2020
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