[Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Fri Mar 11 12:13:24 GMT 2011

Hello Dave, thank you for that I have got it working now.  Ron, I didn't
have the 'enable content' option on this machine.

Regards, Kerrie.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 11 March 2011 11:55
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Maybe take a step back and see if it is set up to work at all first:

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Text-to-Speech

To determine if Text-to-Speech is working properly, use the following
tests. 

1.	Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Speech. 
2.	On the Text-to-Speech tab, click Preview Voice. The text in
Preview Voice should be spoken audibly with each word highlighted in
turn. If so, TTS and the speakers are working. If you cannot hear the
Preview Voice and see words highlighted as they are spoken, see
"Possible Text-to-Speech Problems" section of this article for
troubleshooting solutions. 

Possible Text-to-Speech Problems

If you do not hear speech after testing the system, consider the
following: 

1.	The speaker volume is not turned up or is muted. Some speakers
have external controls for volume and muting. Make sure the volume is
turned up sufficiently or that muting is off. 
2.	The speakers may not be selected as the current output device.
On the Text-to-Speech tab, click Audio Output to make sure that the
speakers are selected.
3.	The speakers might not be connected properly. Consult the
speaker hardware documentation for additional information. Make certain
that the sound card for the computer is also properly seated and
installed, and that the correct drivers are available. See "Set Up
Speakers" for additional connection information. 
4.	The Text-to-Speech engine may be corrupted. To test for
corruption, switch to another engine. See the "Changing the TTS voice or
engine" section of this article. If another engine is working properly,
reinstall the specific engine from the original source. If no engine is
working properly, reinstall the speech engine from the original source
or CD. 

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From: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:43:23 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Hi Kerrie

This is obviously in IE only and as I put as a question I'm not 100%
certain that this isn't specific to my laptop/configuration so would be
good to hear from others but anyway what I found was that regardless of
the active x settings if I had protected mode enabled the tts didn't
work, with it unchecked it does work.

Tools > Internet Options > Security > uncheck enable protected mode and
click apply

Then visit your LO/refresh the page, tick the tts checkbox, enable the
prompt and then tab around.

Let us know if that works for you?

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kerrie
Stephenson
Sent: 11 March 2011 11:29
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Hello everybody,

I have changed my active settings but still have no sound for TTS.  Ron
has said to uncheck "Enable Protected mode", I'm not sure what this
means, could you tell me how to do it, it may then work for me.

Regards, Kerrie.  

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 09 March 2011 12:00
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Hi Julian/all

a couple of reasons for posting a reply to this older topic...

1. In response to the recent question about tts I tried searching the
list archives via and used Active X changes in web browsers as the
search term but it didn't find the thread below. Thinking about
Johnathan's thread about not finding messages he posted either I'm
wondering if something has gone awry with the list search?

2. Also to update the thread below with what I've found in relation to
the tts problem I had: I compared and matched the settings for Internet
zone and Local Intranet zone because I was getting TTS working via a
http://localhost install but not a web based url. However what I noticed
was that the Internet zone had the Enable protected mode checked whereas
the local intranet zone didn't have this checked. Un-checking this for
Internet zone got TTS working again for web based URL's.

So we know that the active x setting that must be set to prompt or
enabled is "Initialise and script active x controls not marked as safe
for scripting" but is it also the case that "Enable Protected mode" must
be unchecked? That's certainly the case for me but just wondering if
there's another combination of some sort that stops the TTS from working
if Protected mode is enabled?

Cheers

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 16 February 2011 08:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

For all zones? Where is the content playing from? The local machine zone
can't be easily accessed anymore, but does have its own settings...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:43
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

Well in changing setting on my laptop to try to verify this I'm now not
getting any sound from the TTS :-( I get sound from other sources and
still get prompted when selecting the TTS options but when I then tab
around no TTS is heard - which I hadn't tried testing this now!

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:31
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

The only one I've ever had to change is 'Initialise and script Active X
Controls not marked as safe for scripting'. Pretty certain about that.
The ActiveX control in question is the Microsoft SAPI one, and it's part
of windows: it doesn't need downloading. Why they can't mark it as safe
beats me: why shouldn't Microsoft software distributed as part of a
Microsoft OS running in a Microsoft browser be anything other than
completely safe?

;-)

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 16:28
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

I'm wondering if one setting prompts for the control if it's already
installed and the other (the unsigned one) prompts for it to download if
it's not already available? I just seem to recall having to change that
setting in order to get it to work on presentation machines when
delivering training. However I could be wrong as it's often a last
minute thing to try to get working before a training session and often
on machines that have all the settings locked down. Not sure I can
properly test on my laptop because it works already which obviously
means that the control is already available.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:39
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

No, it's the one for "Initialise and script active x controls not marked
as safe for scripting" to prompt, at least for the TTS - were you
thinking of something else?

Unsigned ones should be left alone, I think...?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:29
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Active X changes in web browsers

The main one is changing unsigned activex controls to prompt rather than
disabled. Alistair and I were talking about guidnace on this recently
and Alistair did a screenshot of his long scrolling list of settings -
see attached.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Andy Epps
Sent: 15 February 2011 15:16
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Active X changes in web browsers

Hi all

I have recently rolled out our institutional version of Xerte and
remember Ron mentioning that you need to make some active x changes in
your institutions browsers. Can somebody please clarify what these
changes are as I remember that they make a significant improvement to
the end users Xerte experience.

Thanks

Andy 

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