Product Support

Writing with Symbols 2000

email : support@widgit.com
tel : 01926 333686

Problem

"Error selecting a tts engine - no sound card?"
is displayed when WWS2000 is run

Solution 1

Go to control panel

In Windows 2000: Start > Settings > Control Panel
In Windows XP: Start > Control Panel

Select Sounds Properties

In Windows 2000: Sounds and Multimedia
In Windows XP: Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices

Select Audio tab

Change Midi Music Playback to another option in the drop down list.

Solution 2

This can be caused by a corruption with the speech files

You can re-install the speech from the WWS2000 CD.

Right click on 'Start' at the bottom left hand side of your screen

Choose 'explore'

A window will open up and you will need to click on the folder which says WWS2002-6 (this will be on the left hand side).

Choose the folder labelled 'Redist'

Double click on the file MSTTSL.EXE (Microsoft text to speech engine)

Follow the instructions. It shold re-install your speech engines.

Repeat by opening the folder api and double click on the file spchapi.exe.