Chinese TTS Fails, while English works

Question

I just installed the Microsoft speech SDK 11 and added 2 different Runtime languages for english and chinese.

English seems to run fine, though chinese throws me th

Answer 1

As posted by tofutim: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28042294/1212314

Between Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.0, two files were dropped that are critical for using the Server Speech API. These are chsbrkr.dll and chtbrkr.dll which will be in the Windows directory in Windows 8.0. It is also important to choose the x86 vs x64 versions from Windows depending on your SDK and Windows 8.0 version (x86 vs x64). For example, in a 64-bit Windows 8.1 environment, using 32-bit dll's, you should place the two files in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\TTS\v11.0

Hopefully, Microsoft will fix these (though I am told they will not) or officially allow for distribution (good luck...).

BTW, you should not see this error in Windows XP through Windows 8.0.

Update. I believe these files are used to break up Chinese into chunks for the TTS to handle. Without them, the Chinese TTS will fail with the error posted.