Hi Thomas, Yeah, it was uninstalling Cepstral that caused mine to break. The only one that worked after that were the Microsoft voices, and so I tried the deluserlex program to try and fix my Scansoft Daniel, but once I ran that, not even the Microsoft voices worked. Regards, Damien
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:41 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Sapi problems was Puppy1 > Hi Damien, > I guess in order for us to solve your Sapi 5 issues I think it might be > helpful, and try to find out how it got broke in the first place. For > example, when I was trouble shooting Sapi 5 issues for Montezuma's > Revenge I discovered if you install some speech demos, some third-party > Sapi voices, and later remove them all of your Sapi 5 voices may stop > working properly. > In one case in point one of my customers installed some of the Cepstral > voices, and when Cepstral upgraded to the latest Swift engine, he > removed his older versions, and tried updating to the new voices. For > whatever reason all of his Sapi voices stopped working. In the end I > only solved his problem by talking him through a Sapi 5 reinstall from > the Win XP recovery cd. > As it happens it is events like that which has made me personally decide > to drop Sapi 5 support in the next release of the game now known as > Mysteries of the Ancients. My job is game technical support, not MS Sapi > support, but you know how some customers are. If their machine is busted > they want it fixed pronto so they can play the game they baught, and if > their machine is broken they blame my game for their troubles rather > than their cranky computer. Grin. > Anyway, if you can help us out by telling us what you installed > recently, if you have added any new Sapi voices recently, etc it would > help out a bunch. > Cheers. > > Damien Sadler wrote: >> Hi Jim, >> I have tried going to the control panel, and not even the Microsoft >> voices >> work. I tried the deluserlex program, that didn't do anything. As for my >> Windows XP CD, I lost that ages ago. >> I tried the sapisvr.exe program as I was writing this email, and that >> didn't >> work either. There seems to be a critical error with it, since when I >> select >> a voice, or preview a selected one in the control panel, it comes up with >> the following error: >> Speech Properties >> This voice cannot be played. Please try selecting another voice or >> selecting a different >> audio output device. >> OK >> This happens with every voice I select, including Microsoft Sam, and I >> know >> for a fact that it's not my sound card, since screenreader speech and >> sound >> effects play fine. >> Thanks. >> Regards, >> Damien > > > --- > 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] --- 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]
