Hi Zak, Quote I'm at my limit with Sapi 5 and games of any description. I don't know why, but it seems that almost spontaniously Sapi5 voices on the whole just stopped working. End quote
I've done allot of research into this specific issue, and in every case I have discovered it is caused by someone installing a third party tts engine that isn't fully compatible with the end users Sapi 5 version. In one particular case one Monte end user installed Cepstral, didn't like the voice, uninstalled Cepstral and Sapi 5 totally stopped operating. Either it pulled something critical out of the Sapi install or left it in some state of incompatible configured state I couldn't say. What I can say was I had to talk the end user into restoring a Windows XP restore point to go way back before Cepstral was installed to fix said issue. So with Sapi 5 before installing any third party Sapi voice make a restore point. Quote This causes a great deal of annoyance: I can still use Elloquence for speech with Window-Eyes, but none of the games which use Sapi--Montezuma's Revenge, any of the Blind Gamers series from Spoonbill Software, etc. will work. End quote This is like comparing apples and oranges. Eloquence is not a Sapi 5 speech engine. the Windows version is based on a Sapi 4 engine. So whatever is effecting Sapi 5 voices has no effect on Eloquence. Quote In the Control Panel, I've investigated and found that none of the speech voices will preview. "This voice cannot be played. Please try selecting another voice or a different output device." I've tried that, and neither seems to fix anything. End quote Yep. Sapi 5 is really screwed. You either need to do a complete MS Sapi 5.1 installation, or use a Windows restore point to fix this problem. Quote I've ran innumerable repair tools, tried deleting the user lexicon file, nothing seems to work. Any ideas on what might be causing this? End quote Without more details on how Sapi 5 got into that condition it is hard to say. All I do know you are not alone, and I have decided to drop Sapi 5 support in my newer games for this exact reason. I have spent more technical support on Sapi 5 alone than I have in game bugs. Which I have had not more than one case where my game got accused for crashing when I later discovered Sapi 5.x had died on the end users system. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
