half of microsoft voices suddenly unavailable

[Victor Ortiz 0]

I followed the video on Youtube to download MS voices for many languages and had enjoyed using them until a week or so ago.  Suddenly, only the desktop voices are available and the others are not to be found in P2A.  They are in their files in the system, ready to use, but P2A does not show them anymore.  What did I miss?

[Dave-Pilot2ATC 864]

Most likely Windows changed something.  If you edited the Registry to "fake" Mobile voices to act like Desktop voices, Windows updates and repairs will often change those registry entries back.  You can try going through whatever process you used before again.

Dave

[Victor Ortiz 0]

That I'll do.  Thanks Dave.  Film at 11.

[Victor Ortiz 0]

Fortunately, it was easy to reactivate them with the Merge function on the voice file.  Whew!   Thanks for talking me through, Dave!

[lukehall 10]

The best way I have found to do this quickly is to keep a folder with all of your edited exported registry voice entries. Then, if windows updates and re-sets the registry entries, all you have to do is double click each of your saved reg files and re-merge them.