If the SAPI voices can be set as your computer's native voice from that setting, you'll also be able to use them within the Web Reader using the Native Voice speech option in the Web Reader settings. The easiest way to get to it that I know of is search for tts in the windows start menu, but you can also get to it from the Advanced Speech Options under the Speech Recognition section of the control panel.
You can try navigating to the text to speech properties of the windows machine and see if the SAPI voices appear in the voice selector from there. It's actually very common for us to have computers with text to speech voices that are installed in a manner that only specific programs can access them, and not the full system itself. Unfortunately Windows handles text to speech voices in sometimes strange and confusing ways. Luckily I'm technical and have been an individual member since 2002!
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I might have future problems, such as how to effectively demo a book with images, when I myself can't see them, but first I need to get more voices working. My current problem seems to be getting Cghrome to see all my SAPI voices. The web reader works fine visually and it works fine with JAWS, NVDA and WindowEyes in Chrome, Firefox and IE.
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I know that one can install high-quality voices from the Chrome web store, but I really don’t want to log in to Chrome using my personal account ideally I don’t want to log in to Chrome using any account so I can replicate the experience one might have in a computer lab. My suspicion is that the problem is caused by my running the 64-bit version of Windows 7, and even though I can adjust voices using the 32-bit control panel aplet to change the default voice, that doesn’t seem to affect Chrome. I couldn’t get the Bookshare web reader on Chrome to use any of those voices it only wanted to use Microsoft Anna. The department laptop and my office PCS are all running K1000, NVDA, TextAloud and Balabolka with a variety of great SAPI voices that I’d purchased. Ideally, I want to be able to demo it flawlessly. But my job mostly involves assisting LD students and I want to be sure I master the interface to the web reader on Chrome which gives that population a better experience. I am blind and an experienced bookshare member. We only have Windows 7 here I don’t plan to upgrade until our college I.T. I wanted to demo the Bookshare web reader on Chrome to a staff member.