Ultra Hal T2S w/ NeoSpeech Crashes (does not work)

[mark@regan.net]

Ultra Hal Text-to-Speech Reader has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience.

AppName: halreader.exe    AppVer: 1.0.0.22    ModName: msvbvm60.dll
ModVer: 6.0.96.90    Offset: 0002453c

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[eriji]

I have the exact same error.  Did anyone have a solution for this?

[speechie]

I have this problem and I've tried reinstalling, registry cleaning, going through system 32 and wasting tons of time.  There has to be a solution because I paid for the voices and yet there really isn't any support.  I guess it's one of those let the buyer beware situations.

[mrmikel]

It is not an inherent flaw in the program to get the msvbvm60.dll error. It worked fine on this machine and then just suddenly developed it and removing and reinstalling does not work. (note did not restart after remove but program did not call for it.)

I think remove is not complete because the last file location is retained.  Dictionary on this machine was not fiddled with.  Before removal and reinstall, you load a file then it wipes it out and you have to reload again.  Tried updating .dll file but did not do any good.

[mrmikel]

One avenue to try to download spacejock installer at www.spacejock.com.  His yread2 program will use the installed voices and has a feature or two that Hal reader doesn't gave although the voices don't work as well.  His installer tests for what you need and will offer to download what you don't have.

[Starbuck]

It used to work on my machine, then [poof] one day it quit, and I had the same results with uninstalling/reinstalling, and it just seems to be dead.  I would personally love to hear if anyone has gotten it to work again after it's giving that error.