Does narrator speak at all?

From the windows run command, how about trying to set your default SAPI voice system-wide:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Speech\SpeechUX\sapi.cpl

Balabolka?

eSpeak TTS app?

Otherwise, form of windows repair?

Know that's not terribly helpful, but anyway.

Jacob Kruger
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