TTS tab missing from Speech Properties; TTS not working

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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
 
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