Someone once said they fixed the problem by copying some SAPI-related
DLLs off their Windows install CD. They disappeared without telling
anyone what those files were, unfortunately.
The SAPI extractor is crumbling away because Valve don't use it. They
have a different extractor built with phoneme middleware that they don't
- I assume - have a distribution license for.
I went back to the extractor just now to make sure it still works and
found a bug in the error message that appears when extraction totally
fails. Somehow I'd cocked up the process of launching the control panel
app. Fix here:
http://steamreview.org/external/vdc/phonemeextractor_sapi5.4.zip
On 14/12/2010 11:50, Cory de La Torre wrote:
Not really sure if this falls under mapping or not, so I threw it in the
coders list. My current problem is extracting phenom extraction. I'm
currently using Tom Edwards "fixed" phonemeextractor.dll. For reasons I
can't seem to understand is during the extraction (after putting in the
sentence for the audio file and clicking ok) faceposer just plain crashes.
I've found it works for other people and sometimes it doesn't, though I seem
to be the in the rare group of people that faceposer just plain crashes on
during the extraction.
I was following a tutorial earlier that dates back to around 2008.The
tutorial has directed me to go and download the SpeechSDK and install that.
Upon further investigation I've found that under Windows 7 you don't even
need that, and just the fixed dll. After reading some more I've come to
another fork in the road. It seems the only way to get this shit all fixed
up again is to reinstall windows, something I am totally not going to do if
this still doesn't end working. Honestly I shouldn't have to reinstall my
operating system anyways. Thats a severe punishment for this going south. My
question is whether or not installing the SpeechSDk is the reason Faceposer
is crashing at extraction.
To clarify I've went and uninstalled the SpeechSDK before putting in the
fixed phonemeextractor.dll.
Aside all of this madness; whats going on anyways!? I wouldn't have expected
getting faceposer to work would be all this trouble under 2009 on future
operating systems that almost everyone has entirely migrated too. I'm
assuming Valve is at least using some Windows 7 and Vista machines up there,
unless they are seriously using XP to use a "working" faceposer. The fact we
need to use a custom modified dll to get all this working again is pretty
bad. Faceposer should "just work" out of the box, and not require any users
to go searching around for things. Yeah, yeah I know, not in valves current
needs to do (too busy, yadda yadda) but that shit is starting to get real
tiring. I'd like for once to actually be able to use a single Source Engine
tool that isn't made by someone outside of Valve and works/does not require
workarounds.
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