Hi everyone, I thought I would just send you a quick message on a very interesting development that will effect Windows 7 64-bit users. As many of you know the copy of the Sapi 5 compatible Realspeak voices that shipped with Jaws 8, 9, and 10 will not install on Windows 7. The issue is that Freedom Scientific set a launch condition in the setup installer to fail if running a 64-bit computer, but the voices themselves work fine on Windows 7 if you get passed that error message. So what I've done is built a new Microsoft Setup Installer for the voices, installed them on a 64-bit computer, and am able to use them with NVDA as well as Jim Kitchens games. So the good news is it is possible to use the Sapi 5 compatible version of Tom, Caren, Lee, Daniel, Emily, etc on Windows 7. The bad news is redistributing my setup installer would be technically illegal so I can't just casually redistribute my copy.
What I'm thinking of doing here is creating a patch so you could copy your Realspeak disc to your computer, copy my patch over to the setup installer, and run it to install the voices on your system. This would legally cover my backside as I wouldn't redistribute the cab file with the voice data but only the *.msi file which launches the setup. I was wondering how many people would be interested in this patch so they could continue to use the Scansoft Realspeak voices on more modern Windows machines for games, screen readers, etc? Cheers! --- 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://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
