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Speech Technology / HAL Text to Speech Reader won't start at all.

« on: January 27, 2007, 07:46:44 pm »

Thanks, I'll look into that.  Incidentally, I think I know what caused the problem in my case...I installed Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 Standard(from Nuance) the day before I noticed the Hal startup problem.  The reason this occurred to me is that I had Hal TTS on my laptop as well, and when I installed Dragon on that a week later, the same effect on Hal occurred...I'm not willing to part with Dragon, so my investment in Hal seems kind of wasted.

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Speech Technology / HAL Text to Wave using Neo Speech

« on: December 14, 2006, 06:30:04 am »

Semi-frustrated so far; does the text-to-wave conversion not work with Neospeech voices?

This was one of my key reasons for purchasing the program, but wasn't told that this functionality didn't exist, as it seems to only work with the lower grade voices. Is an update of the program coming to allow this?  Or is this why people are switching to Text Aloud?

Thanks,
Keith

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Speech Technology / HAL Text to Speech Reader won't start at all.

« on: December 14, 2006, 03:58:55 am »

I purchased the NeoSpeech module version of the HAL TTS on CD, and installed it without incident, but it won't run, period.  Windows XP declares "there was a problem" and it's goodbye.  Lots of disk space, memory, and a fast processor, recent full virus and spyware scans, etc., so it's not the basic platform.

Are there some programs though that might fatally block or conflict with HAL? Any key factors to check?

Thanks.