Just dropped the new dlls in right now and still getting crashes. Gonna try looking through my Windows install now.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Cory de La Torre <gear....@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > -- Gear Dev _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
