Re: sapi5 eloquence
Eloquence and espeak are the leaders of responsiveness on windows. To everyone using a virtual machine, either on windows or mac, or maybe even bootcamp, you will need to do some stuff before installing eloquence. As an antipiracy measure, they are using a commercial drm solution called Themita. This controls stuff like number of computers your license is installed on, etc. Disadvantage is that themita restricts the software from being installed on virtual machines. This is obviously an annoying hurdle to jump. Fortunately, there is a way around it. Ok so you gotta now open the .vmx file of your virtual machine. If it's a newly formatted mac vm that's packaged in a single file, v-o+shift+m on the vm, show package contents, the nfind the .vmx file. Now go to the end of the file and add the following line.
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "TRUE"
Backdoor is the system that contains information about the computer and notes that it is in deed a virtual
machine, and installers like this one that have drm coded in them will look for this information. As you will know if you have tried installing eloquence in a vm, they got an error saying, "Sorry, this software can't be installed in a vm," it's that information that the installer is getting. Restricting backdoor will make sure the virtual machine's badge of nonhonor is not exposed and is not being worn.
But it makes the virtual machine look like a real computer rather than a vm. Now save the vmx. You're still not done, cause now you gotta change the display. The Themita drm will go crazy and check your display! as part of the computer info check. It is smart and knows the vmware display driver when it sees it. You gotta get rid of the evidence that it's using vmware display driver. Here's what ya gotta do. Open registry editer. Go to the f
ollowing path. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000 now go to the driver desk key and shift+f10 on that, go to modify. Now delete what's in that name field you land on. Hit ok. Restart windows. Install eloquence. You're good to go! You shouldn't get any errors from beyond here. Vocalizer for some reason gives an error saying "Ve.dll is missing" just ignore it, it will finish the install properly anyway. This is near completely legal as all you are doing is making yourself able to install the software, nothing more. As you can see this method does not in anyway involve stripping the drm from the software, just working around it.
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