Here's what I did (right after the usual warnings about mucking about in the registry): Now, I'm probably braver (read: stupider) than many folks, and I am NOT suggesting this fix for anyone else, but it worked for me.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens While the entry for Microsoft Anna was in a completely different branch: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens While looking for "Microsoft Mike" within the registry (not visible in the standard TTS config window, but visible in the WoW64 version), I found an entry in this branch of the registry: All I saw there was the same Microsoft Anna default voice, which to me was no good, so I did some digging on my own, and found this bit of information:
Until I went back to the Control Panel>Speech Recognition applet afterwards. Few solutions identified (for 64-bit users)īy trying the method outlined above, I was able to change the default voice.