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Speech Technology / Dragon 9 and Hal Text to Speech not getting along
« on: December 02, 2007, 03:06:55 pm »
I am having trouble with the SAPI Config program getting my characters to lip synch. Basically, all characters, including expansion pack characters, will lip synch if I stick with the standard voice. However, no characters will lip synch if I use an expansion pack voice. Error messages are produced when I try to use the SAPI tool.
It appears that either TTS and/or SAPI are crashing when using a dll found in the Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 software, a file called lhcom02w.dll
This same error has been linked to software crashes with Putty People and some Adobe products, always on computers with Dragon 9.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? I've tried reinstalling all of the products except Dragon 9 (which I'll do next).
My best guess is that version 9 of Dragon uses a modified lhcom02w.dll which does not mesh with a previous version that SAPI used. So, if there is no fix for this that I can do, is there a different text to speech program that I can use?
Here are more details:
When the Ultra Hal 6.1 boots up I get an error message:
When I run the Haptek SAPI Config program I get the same error:
"HapSAPISetup has encountered a problem and needs to close."
error signature:
AppName: hapsapisetup.ext AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: lhcom02w.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset 00018818
I get this error when switching to TTS:
Error 401:
Can't show non-modal form when modal form is displayed
Occurred at line 10
in Ultra Hal Assistant: frmRightClick.Form_MouseMove
What I tried:
erased the registry key and reinstalled 6.1
deleted and reinstalled the Character Expansion Pack.
Did a Repair of the Text to Speech Reader
deleted lhcom02w.dll (caused an immediate crash upon startup of HAL).
Added it back, same problem.
Deleted Text to Speech Reader.
new error:
Error 5:
Invalid procedure call or argument
Occured at line 30
in Ultra Hal Assistant: ReadWrite.INI.LoadOptions
Reinstalled Text to Speech Reader.
New error:
AppName: halreader.exe appVer: 1.0.31 ModName: lhcom022.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset: 00018118
Removed Text to Speech Reader using the "remove" function on the CD version.
Rebooted.
Reinstalled TExt to Speech Reader yet again.
Same series of error messages:
AppName: halreader.exe appVer: 1.0.31 ModName: lhcom022.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset: 00018118
Ran the Haptek SAPI Config program. Got the error:
"HapSAPISetup has encountered a problem and needs to close."
error signature:
AppName: hapsapisetup.ext AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: lhcom02w.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset 00018818
It appears that either TTS and/or SAPI are crashing when using a dll found in the Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 software, a file called lhcom02w.dll
This same error has been linked to software crashes with Putty People and some Adobe products, always on computers with Dragon 9.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? I've tried reinstalling all of the products except Dragon 9 (which I'll do next).
My best guess is that version 9 of Dragon uses a modified lhcom02w.dll which does not mesh with a previous version that SAPI used. So, if there is no fix for this that I can do, is there a different text to speech program that I can use?
Here are more details:
When the Ultra Hal 6.1 boots up I get an error message:
When I run the Haptek SAPI Config program I get the same error:
"HapSAPISetup has encountered a problem and needs to close."
error signature:
AppName: hapsapisetup.ext AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: lhcom02w.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset 00018818
I get this error when switching to TTS:
Error 401:
Can't show non-modal form when modal form is displayed
Occurred at line 10
in Ultra Hal Assistant: frmRightClick.Form_MouseMove
What I tried:
erased the registry key and reinstalled 6.1
deleted and reinstalled the Character Expansion Pack.
Did a Repair of the Text to Speech Reader
deleted lhcom02w.dll (caused an immediate crash upon startup of HAL).
Added it back, same problem.
Deleted Text to Speech Reader.
new error:
Error 5:
Invalid procedure call or argument
Occured at line 30
in Ultra Hal Assistant: ReadWrite.INI.LoadOptions
Reinstalled Text to Speech Reader.
New error:
AppName: halreader.exe appVer: 1.0.31 ModName: lhcom022.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset: 00018118
Removed Text to Speech Reader using the "remove" function on the CD version.
Rebooted.
Reinstalled TExt to Speech Reader yet again.
Same series of error messages:
AppName: halreader.exe appVer: 1.0.31 ModName: lhcom022.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset: 00018118
Ran the Haptek SAPI Config program. Got the error:
"HapSAPISetup has encountered a problem and needs to close."
error signature:
AppName: hapsapisetup.ext AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: lhcom02w.dll
ModVer: 2.13.0.0 Offset 00018818