Captivate 8 Won't Play Zira

I recently purchased Captivate 8 (8.0.0.145) and tried some tests of Text-to-Speech. When I select the Microsoft Zira voice agent I get Microsoft David instead. Selecting David as the voice agent works fine.  I checked that Zira works with the Windows narrator function - that's OK.  I also verified that I generated the audio correctly with Zira selected (several times).
I'm trying this in what started as a blank project with 8 slides - nothing fancy.  Because Zira is a Microsoft voice I don't know what to do.
Thanks.

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