Steps to reproduce:

1. Have NVDA 2025.1 or later and ETI Eloquence installed.
2. Select SAPI5 Eloquence as the speech engine in NVDA.
3. Restart NVDA or reboot the computer.

Actual behavior:

NVDA switches to Windows OneCore voices after a restart or reboot. The synthesizer has to be manually changed back to SAPI5 Eloquence in the settings.

Expected behavior:

NVDA should stay on the selected SAPI5 Eloquence voice after a restart or reboot.

NVDA logs, crash dumps and other attachments:

nvda.log
nvda-old.log

System configuration

NVDA installed/portable/running from source:

Installed on computer

NVDA version:

2025.1

Windows version:

Windows 11 24H2 (AMD64) build 26100.4351

Name and version of other software in use when reproducing the issue:

Code Factory ETI Eloquence version 1.11.0

Other information about your system:

MSI Bravo 15 laptop

Other questions

Does the issue still occur after restarting your computer?

Yes.

Have you tried any other versions of NVDA? If so, please report their behaviors.

If NVDA add-ons are disabled, is your problem still occurring?

Does the issue still occur after you run the COM Registration Fixing Tool in NVDA's tools menu?

I normally use sapi5 speech engine and in particular i use code factory ETI Eloquence, and when i need to restart nvda and or reboot the computer it switches to windows one core voices engine. I would have to go to settings to put it back.