Installing Text-to-Speech

Hello,
I'm currently using Captivate 4 and am trying to download and install the text-to-speech software, following the instructions in the following tutorial:
http://www.robowizard.com/RoboWizard/Tutorials/Captivate/TTS.htm
Everything is great until I get to step 19. Instead of installing the voices, I get an error that states "Install Adobe Captivate 4 before installing Neo Speech Text to Speech.", though clearly I have already installed Captivate 4. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jessica

Hi Rick,
I downloaded it from here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/857/cpsid_85714.html (it took some digging to find this), but it does look like the correct thing...
Thank you,
Jessica

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Please take a moment and file a Bug report to Adobe. After you do this, you may find that someone on the Adobe team will contact you with more information. I'm not claiming it works in all cases, but you never know. Maybe they will come back to you with a suggestion. Certainly won't hurt to try.
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Did you fully watch the tutorial? I ask because it's possible that you saw the first part and concluded it just walked you through what you have already done. The thing is, you download and run a file. But all you have downloaded and run are the INSTALL files for the Text To Speech. You have to then navigate to where the install files were placed and launch the installer to actually install TTS.
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H
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Using third-party voices for speech text
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...and he's at it again!
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