This does interest me a bit. I haven't previously used the
voices, but that's mostly because I didn't like them with jaws.
I'd certainly like to see how they work in just a gaming
environment.
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org
Date sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:45:49 -0400
Subject: [Audyssey] Scansoft Realspeak Voices and 64-bit Windows
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!
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