Hi Lukas, Yep, he has a broken Sapi 5 install. There is a fix utility out there for this issue, and I am going to post it to my sight as soon as possible.
Neo wrote: > Hi Simon, > seems that something is majorly wrong with your installation of Sapi. > I had a similar problem. > A friend of mine created a little freeware program called Text to mp3, which > does exactly that - takes a .txt file and converts it into mp3 using Sapi, > excellent for reading ebooks or any longer documents in general when > travelling on your mp3 player, etc. > External applications that try to access Sapi have to do so through the > sapi.spvoice object, and my installation of Sapi got somehow broken one day, > I don'T know even now what was the cause of it. My screen reader still > worked, but all other appz, including the text2mp3, couldn't create the > sapi.spvoice object any more, which was causing similar crashes to yours > whenever there was an attempt to access Sapi. NOthing I could do fixed this > problem, and as I wasn't given any XP installation CD with my computer, > probably by accident, only thing I could do was to reformat my system > partition and install a system recovery I was given, making the system look > exactly the same as it was the day I got it. Only this was able to fix the > problem. > So I guess to remove any and all traces of Sapi you might have on your > system, reinstall Windows (if you have the installation CD, a common > reinstall on the top of the current system should do it) and then install > Sapi 5.1 again. > Hope this might perhaps help, > Lukas > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
