Thanks tom, really appreciate it. I'll go looking for those files, though might you have any idea which folder they would be located in within the cd directory? I'm assuming it would be in the root directory of windows though.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Tom Edwards <cont...@steamreview.org>wrote: > 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. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- Gear Dev _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
