Hi, I've recently purchased a new machine, and unlike my old one, Microsoft Sam is the only voice output availiable. Personally, Microsoft Sam drives me insane.

Microsoft Sam is the default text-to-speech male voice in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It is used by Narrator, the screen reader program built into the operating system. Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary are optional male and female voices respectively, available for download from the Microsoft website.

I've been trying to get the voice of 'LH Michael' onto my new machine, and have downloaded and installed:, both the English and British versions. After this did not solve my problem, I downloaded and installed:, however both of these moves proved inconclusive to my problem, and I still have the lonesome Microsoft Sam as the only output TTS availiable. Any help in solving my problem would be great, thanks. Nigel Bufton 11/1/2007, 6:28 น. I'm new to this discussion business and find it really confusing to figure out how to get into the thing. I'm having a problem with Word text-to-speech.

Since I can't figure out how to start a new thread I thought maybe I could horn in on this discussion and maybe get the answer I'm looking for. Here's the problem: Sam talks for just about a minute and then shuts down. I start him talking again and again after a minute he shuts down. I've looked every place trying to find that box I have to check to make the guy keep talking to the end of the document. Thanks clydo spence-dog 30/5/2008, 13:35 น.

Note the SAPI v5.0 can be downloaded from microsoft's site Download: Sp5TTIntXP.exe - to add Mike and Mary. Swarplug 3 torrent online. ALSO DOWNLOAD: msttss22L.exe - This upgrades the TTS engine.* *Doing so cleans up the voices somewhat and almost makes Sam bearable. 'Anonymouse' wrote: > I ran into the same issue and found the following solution: > > Download the following: > > > > Install. (Note that the installer is a little funny--I just Unzipped the > file to my desktop.) > > When you open 'Speech' in the Control Panel, Mary, Mike, and Michael will be > waiting for you. Crespo@discussions.microsoft.com jennifer crespo 22/1/2009, 7:49 น.