Windows XP Windows XP stop text to speech

udhaya_k · Jan 6, 2014

I know there are answers that deleting ctfmon.exe, and turnoff settings in regional and settings and referred in support.microsoft.com and did all those. But I have a software (a dictionary) which uses winxp text to speech voice if it's voice file is not available. It still echoes winxp text to speech voice. I want to stop it. Can anyone help me?

alow · Jan 6, 2014

What is the name of the software you have that is doing this? (I assume from what you're saying that the Windows XP native text to speech tool has been disabled and it is now a third party tool at works)

udhaya_k · Jan 7, 2014

It is Wordweb dictionary. When I click button for the pronunciation for a word, it has sound file, it would retrieve sound for the appropriate word. If the sound is not available, then it executes the windows xp native speech and I hear Microsoft Sam voice reads the word which is not correct pronunciation.

udhaya_k · Jan 8, 2014

alow,
Thanks for trying to help me. I solved it myself. The link where I referred to enter in sapi.cpl in registry must be sapi.dll (https://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/text-speech-do-disable-t597996.html). Now I am fine.
udhaya_k