Hi Jim, No, you don't need the SDK to include the Sapi dll file to a VB 6 orVB .NET project. Like I said before it is a comm component and it is available for these languages with or without the SDK. All the SDK does is provides end user documentation, and the C++ headers and libs, plus the extra Sapi 5 voices. That's all. There is nothing special added for Visual Basic 6. You might have to browse for the object reference, but it is still there or can be added without the SDK. As I mentioned before once the VB 6 runtime is installed your games seames to work fine with Sapi 5.3 so you already know the basic code anyway. There are some advanced features in 5.3 you aren't taking advantage of, but for compatibility sake you know all you need to know about Sapi for your games. The one thing I don't know if it is compatible is the VB 6 IDE itself. According to the Microsoft web site you need Visual Basic 2005 service pack 1 or higher for Windows 7. Since I already have Visual Basic 2008 I've never tried installing and using anything earlier. So that might or might not be a problem for you. As far as voices goes let me just say here are the voices I have and that work with Windows 7. First, I have all of the Scansoft voices that shipped with Openbook 8 and Jaws 9 that are Sapi 5.x compatible and I've had no problems with them. I also own Cepstral Callie 5 and she also works with Windows 7 so I'd say all of the Cepstral 5 voices will work equally as well. I also have AT&T Mike and Crystal I believe 4.x something and haven't had the problems others mentioned. The free and open source Espeak TTS engine works fine on Windows 7 too. Finally, I have the Acapela Heather and Lucy voices version 2.2, and they work ok as well. So I don't think there is a lot of room to worry about high quality voices for Windows 7 as long as they are Sapi 5.x compatible they should all work fine. If you really have serious concerns I'd e-mail nextup.com tech support and ask them if they know of any Windows 7 compatibility issues to be aware of. They would know more than me on this subject since selling these voices are their business.
HTH On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 05:48 -0500, Jim Kitchen wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I'm pretty sure that all of my AT&T voices are sapi 5.1 since they work with > my games. Same with my Neo Speech and Cepstral voices. > > The only thing is, in VB6 I need to add the Microsoft speech object library > in references and I don't think that it would be in the list if I do not > install the sapi 5.1 sdk. > > I would not play games with Microsoft Sam, well other than he makes an ok > quarterback, but other than that I really wish that Microsoft would have left > sapi speech the way that it was. > > BFN > > Jim --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
