diff --git a/speech/set-voice.sh b/speech/set-voice.sh
index 4712eac..eefc37d 100755
--- a/speech/set-voice.sh
+++ b/speech/set-voice.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@
 
 # Settings to improve accessibility of dialog.
 export DIALOGOPTS='--insecure --no-lines --visit-items'
+# Turn off debug messages
+export WINEDEBUG="-all"
+# Set DISPLAY, as needed
+if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] ; then
+export DISPLAY=:0
+fi
 
 # Get the desired wine bottle
 
@@ -64,8 +70,6 @@ if [[ -z "${WINEPREFIX}" ]]; then
     exit 0
 fi
 
-echo "wineprefix = $WINEPREFIX"
-
 msgbox() {
 # Returns: None
 # Shows the provided message on the screen with an ok button.
@@ -171,6 +175,14 @@ EOF
 doRestore=1
 trap restore_voice SIGINT
 
+# In case the user hasn't run a game using sapi in this prefix yet, let's try to initialize all the registry keys properly.
+cat << "EOF" > /tmp/speak.vbs
+dim speechobject
+set speechobject=createobject("sapi.spvoice")
+speechobject.speak ""
+EOF
+wine cscript "z:\tmp\speak.vbs"
+
 # Create an array of available voices.
 ifs="$IFS"
 IFS=$'\n'
@@ -189,9 +201,6 @@ if [[ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]]; then
 else
     oldVoice="$(grep -P '"DefaultTokenId"="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\(SOFTWARE|Software)\\\\(Wow6432Node\\\\|)Microsoft\\\\Speech\\\\Voices\\\\Tokens\\\\[^"]+"' "${WINEPREFIX}/user.reg" | sed -E -e 's/"DefaultTokenId"="([^"]+)"/\1/g')"
 fi
-echo "oldVoice: ${oldVoice}"
-echo "voiceList: ${voiceList[@]}"
-echo "voiceListFullName: ${voiceListFullName[@]}"
 #exit 1
 exit=1
 while [[ $exit -ne 0 ]] ; do