Speech synthesis on Windows

[Chipp Walters]

Mark,

I had read on MS website: www.microsoft.com/speech that SAPI 4 and SAPI 5.1
can coexist (didn't even know there was a SAPI 5). Do you know how to
identify which version(s) of SAPI are currently installed?

best,

Chipp


> Chipp-
>
> It gets worse. SAPI is downloadable from MS and can be installed on
> any Windows system going back to Win98. Windows XP throws in another
> monkey wrench with its "side-by-side" technology, which allows it to
> archive different versions of DLLs to work with different pieces of
> software. So it's conceivable that SAPI 5.0 could be installed on a
> WindowsXP machine, the user upgrades to 5.1, and they're both there.
> Somewhere.
>
> -Mark Wieder