Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-11 Thread Sky Taylor Mundell
I thought Hal didn't have a Allen voice? I thought it just had Andy, Ben, Dave, Jim, Mark, Mike, Phil, Simon, and Tom? - Original Message - From: "Dark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 3:43 PM Subject: Re

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Richard Sherman
Hi Thom, Here is my suggestions. I don't have all of the voices mentioned so this is where I am coming from. Do what ever is easiest for you while still producing a great quality game that you are willing to put your name on. If this means making the voices with SAPI then so be it. One poss

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Charles Rivard
AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? > Hi Dennis, > yes. As far as I know all boxed copies of Jaws 8.0 and above will come > with a Realspeak installation cd along with your Jaws 8.0 install cd. > The Australian voices Karen and Lee sound really awesome and so does the &

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dennis, yes. As far as I know all boxed copies of Jaws 8.0 and above will come with a Realspeak installation cd along with your Jaws 8.0 install cd. The Australian voices Karen and Lee sound really awesome and so does the UK voice Daniel. Tom makes a good U.S. English voice. ___

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, I'm not sure what box of Cracker Jacks you got that info from, but the information simply is not true. Sapi 5 voices certainly can be interupted, and the speech stopped at any time. Think about it Jaws 8, Window Eyes 6.0, LW 3.5, need I go on with apps that intrupt Sapi when new inform

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Dennis
Right but it will be in what freedom sends me right? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:48 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? Hi Dennis, They are not

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dennis, They are not on the same disk as Jaws 8. However, the Scansoft cd is in the same boxed set of disks. Jaws is disk 1 and Scansoft should be disk 2. Dennis wrote: > Oh ok so freedom scientific has them on the cd so when I get the cd from > freedom they will be on there? > _

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Dennis
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? Hi Dennis, The Realspeak voices produced by Scansoft don't come with the Jaws 8 demo or the downloadable upgrade. You can only obtain them via recieving your boxed cd set. Disk one is Jaws 8, and the second is theScansoft voices which are s

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dennis, The Realspeak voices produced by Scansoft don't come with the Jaws 8 demo or the downloadable upgrade. You can only obtain them via recieving your boxed cd set. Disk one is Jaws 8, and the second is theScansoft voices which are screen reader independant fortunately, and are an option

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Shaunm Sapi speech is definitely interruptible. Most of the speech in my sapi games is interruptible. Some is not such as when it says game title By Jim Kitchen. I want you to hear that so I made it not interruptible. But it is seriously much easier to interrupt sapi speech than it is a

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Ken the Crazy
ROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? > Hello Tom. > > currently, I'm being forced to use Ms sam in games. Even though I use the > orphius voice Alan with Hal, for some odd re

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-09 Thread Ken the Crazy
- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:55 PM Subject: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? > Hi everyone, > I'm more or less throwing this one out here for some end user feedback > as I need it at this point. > As many of

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
>information . Keeps both the CPU and programming overhead to a minimum. > Rock. > Che > >- Original Message - >From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Gamers Discussion list" >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:17 PM >Subject: Re: [

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
I see your point, I have a highquality voice. However if you sold a game say with the 3 popular engines and voices, I may just buy the voice packs, neo, kepstral, at&t, and scansoft, and the game all in one big thing, I have scansoft on lone for now and its real good. I also have espeak which doe

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
aah. for some reason if you have the office xp and higher loaded with latest service pack and 2003 maybe higher, there are 2 recognition engines and major issues. To fix this. c: in \program files\ coman files\microsoft shared\speech I think, you will find a file called sapisvr.exe run this once

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Che
gt; To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? > Hi Shaun, > > Quote > > 1. if sapi hasn't worked or is mangled somehow, and the user has no use > for it otherwise then the user may ha

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I'm sorry to here about your Sapi issues. In general I have never seen any personal issues with Sapi. It's it possible you have installed something which has damaged your Sapi installed on your local machine. As for in game things like "Torpedoes away" I'd have no problem using human sp

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Quote 1. if sapi hasn't worked or is mangled somehow, and the user has no use for it otherwise then the user may have to fix it or something. End quote In my personal case I have rarely seen or heard of Sapi being so damaged it can't be effectively used. However, I would label this

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Dennis
: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? They come with your shipped copy of JAWS 8.0. - Original Message - From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI suppor

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Charles Rivard
They come with your shipped copy of JAWS 8.0. - Original Message - From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? >I agree on sappy voic

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Dennis
t: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support? I think you should go with the SAPI method. I like the idea of getting the games just a tad earlier. Thanks Casey - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:55 PM Subject:

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Casey
I think you should go with the SAPI method. I like the idea of getting the games just a tad earlier. Thanks Casey - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:55 PM Subject: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI suppor

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Dark
Hello Tom. currently, I'm being forced to use Ms sam in games. Even though I use the orphius voice Alan with Hal, for some odd reason I have severe trouble trying to make any alterations to Sapi, - either using the Orphius Sapi runtime libraries, or trying to install the other Ms voices (th

Re: [Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread shaun everiss
Hmm. The sapi tts sounds like a good way to go. Here are the dissadvantages though. 1. if sapi hasn't worked or is mangled somehow, and the user has no use for it otherwise then the user may have to fix it or something. Hmm that may be an issue not an disadvantage. 2. Unless said user has jaws8,

[Audyssey] USA Games and SAPI support?

2007-03-08 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi everyone, I'm more or less throwing this one out here for some end user feedback as I need it at this point. As many of you know STFC 1.0 and Montezuma's Revenge Alpha 4.4 are using prerecorded wav files for speech playback. The problem with this method is generally that It takes me lots of e