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Phatbox / Keg software and support => Phatnoise Media Manager => Topic started by: andycole on May 21, 2009, 02:19:57 PM

Title: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: andycole on May 21, 2009, 02:19:57 PM
Hi All

I had loads of new songs to add to my orignal 20gb DMS, which didn't fit, and I've also been having problems with the unit anyway, so I decided to wipe my DMS from within music manager and re-sync my MP3's.  That all worked except now I only have the barely understandable 'Microsoft Sam' as my voice prompts.  I'm sure I had 'Crystal' or something like that before.

My question is, where do I get the additional voices from and how do I install them to music manager?  I assume that the additional voices were lost during an upgrade or something.

Cheers
Andy.
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: VorTechS on May 21, 2009, 10:41:40 PM
You can install the voices by re-installing the AT&T voice engine.
The download is available from phatnoise.us, but you need to be a registered user to see the downloads link.
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: Terry_Kennedy on May 23, 2009, 10:42:04 AM
Quote from: VorTechS on May 21, 2009, 10:41:40 PM
You can install the voices by re-installing the AT&T voice engine.
The download is available from phatnoise.us, but you need to be a registered user to see the downloads link.

The original poster said he only wiped the DMS, which shouldn't change anything on the host system (where the voices are generated). I think the various media/music manager programs have the ability to re-generate all the voice tags (select the appropriate TTS voice first).
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: VorTechS on May 23, 2009, 02:19:40 PM
The OP makes reference to an upgrade, and asks where to get the Voices from as they only have MS SAM now. ;)
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: Terry_Kennedy on May 23, 2009, 02:31:07 PM
Quote from: VorTechS on May 23, 2009, 02:19:40 PM
The OP makes reference to an upgrade, and asks where to get the Voices from as they only have MS SAM now. ;)

Could be. Or the TTS settings were reset to the defaults. I don't believe the Microsoft Speech API is installed by default on any Windows version, so it is likely it (and the AT&T Crystal/Mike voices) were installed as part of PMM.
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: VorTechS on May 26, 2009, 10:23:30 AM
Windows XP has SAPI 5, with MS SAM installed by default.
Title: Re: Wiped DMS now I lost all my voices!
Post by: andycole on June 23, 2009, 04:46:33 PM
Hi

My problem was with the host PC, and wiping the DMS just alerted me to the problem, I don't think it was the cause of it.  At some point, I lost AT&T Crystal, I must have uninstalled it by mistake.  Since I wiped the DMS, the host PC obviously needed to re-generate everything and that is when I discovered that I only had SAM.

I've downloaded Jennifer now, thanks to help from VortechS  :)

Andy
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