I am having an issue with the text to speech option - the program automatically defaults to my laptop speakers. I have tried two wired and two Bluetooth headphones. Even though my computer settings were correct and directed the sound to the headset, when I attempted to do text-to-speech, it used the speaker option, bypassing the headphones. For every other program, the sound (music, text to speech, et al), it played through the headphones. I have also tried highlighting text and selecting play. I have the most recent Scrivener for Windows and am still using the trial version. I also have a Windows Surface Laptop 1. Help?
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Hi.
The answer is not in Scrivener. This is a Windows thing.
If you start the TTS, and go in Windows settings as below,
You will see activity where I marked in red.
I pointed to where the output is set.
Scrivener only remotely starts and stops the TTS. It doesn’t actually handle the process.
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If this is not it, check this at the bottom of the same sound settings page from Windows settings:
Scrivener could be set to route to your speakers by default.
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I clicked around what you suggested, it was all set properly, but in the end, the text-to-speech option worked. Thank you for your help!
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If anyone else is having this issue, this is what works for me:
I believe Scrivener uses whichever speaker output is active when the software is started. So, if you open Scrivener, and THEN turn on your bluetooth headphones/etc, the software will stick with the laptop/monitor speakers because that is what it’d opened with.
To fix this, just close and reopen the software while your preferred speakers/headphones are active, and you should then be able to to hear the TTS come through those instead.