microsoft speech platform 11 is not listed after installation

[bootybay]

So after following the instructions on the alternate speech engines page, which means installing runtime and the languages english, german and russian, I still can't see the speech platform 11 in voice attack or windows settings.

I tried installing the SDK with the runtime too, and also x64, x86 and both together, with one, two or three different languages and all without success.

I tried this workaround from stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10634843/unable-to-correctly-install-ms-speech-platform-11-on-win-7-x64) and the entries actually showed up. BUT after applying the changes to voice attack it immediatly crashes on start.

This is my current windows verison: Windows 10 Pro Version 1709 (Build 16299.309)

Please help me out. I spend more then 6 hours on something that should take less than 5 minutes now and I'm afraid it is all because I'm a dummy.

[Gary]

On the options screen on the system/advanced tab, there are two radio buttons labeled, 'Use built-in sapi speech engines' and 'Use installed speech platform speech engines'.  Are these options grayed out or are they active?  If they are active, which option is selected?

[bootybay]

It works after selecting "Use Installed Speech Platform Speech Engines" in the System / Advanced tab.

I skimmed over the instructions several times but my anticipation just played tricks on me. I only checked the Recognition tab and went off in the other direction with googling immediatly and tried solutions for problems I never had.

Thanks, Gary.