Hello, I recently purchased a new Used system, that has Win 7 Pro on it.
At the Shop, I asked them to install a Sound Card, because I like a higher quality sound that what comes from the On Board Sound Chips. They said no problem. I picked up the system a few days ago, and boufht it home. turned it On and let it Boot up. Installed Window Eyes with no problem. Had the system talking fine. But the sound was fussy. Almost as if it was Too Loud and was Over Driving the Speakers, and yet the volume was low. Started to investigate and saw that the Create Sound card had been installed, as I had asked, but there were no Creative Sound Blaster Drivers installed. Looks like they installed the Creative Sound Blaster Card before they installed Win 7, and let Win 7 use a Generic driver for the card. Mr. Smart Guy me thinks I need to install the Real Deal Sound Blaster Drivers, and just maybe this would give me the Clear Sound I am wanting. So I go ahead and used the Driver disc that came with the Sound Blaster card and install the Drivers. The I re-boot the system and when it restarts, the Winodws tune plays, and even the little start up notes of Window Eyes plays, but there is no Speech. Great, now I am stuck. No Speech, but Windows it playing all the Bells and start up noises and Bonks that Windows normally plays. But, no Speech. And the sound is getting played through the Sound card. So I drag my poor wife in, who knows nothing about computers, and I walk her thrugh checking Windows settings. Windows is reconizing the Sound Blaster card, the Volume is up high enough to be heard. I then check the Devices in the Win Eyes Control Panel, and this is still set of Default Card. The Sound Blaster is listed here, so I change the setting to Sound Blaster, Apply it and there is no speech. I have my wife click the OK since I do want Window Eyes to be using the Sound Blaster card as the Out Put Device. But, I still have no speech. I am using the Higher Quality voices such as Tom and Samantha, if this makes any differences. As far as I can tell, my settings are right, but, still have no speech. Can anyone see something I have missed? Is there another setting I need to Check, or Uncheck? Do I need to uninstall Window Eyes and Reinstall it? If anyone has something to try, would you share your thoughts? I am out of ideas to try. Grumpy Dave -- Dave <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
