Yeah, I definitely need an install. Don't have that option right now though.
-- Carol carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi Carol, No it is not just us. I have a very good sighted friend who is very up on computers, and he says that Windows absolutely needs a reinstall after a year, to keep it ticking at any sensible pace, and I tend to agree with him. It is a hassle, but if you keep your data on a separate drive or partition, move my documents for example, you can easily reinstall, if you have all your software to hand. I have an unattended install, but my friend Chris, the same chap we are talking of, created it for me. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carol Pearson Sent: Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:58 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP Hi Steve, I usually go about a year, or a bit longer, but this past install may have gone two years and is now pretty ropey! I just need some sight to go through it all over again and don't fancy that one. Do you think sighted people go through the same saga of install, or do you think it's mainly because we use speech software and/or can't always shut down properly, or crash for no other reason that we can find, apart from the speech maybe? Just interested on your thoughts here. Steve Nutt wrote:Hi Doris, I tend to reinstall Windows at least once a yhear, as I find I get better performance out of it. It becomes kind of like swimming through treacle if you don't, even with the best repair utils in the world. But that's just personal preference on my part, but I don't believe a Windows install stays good for much more than a year. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris & Doris Sent: Tuesday 14 October 2008 23:11 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP Hi, Steve, Reinstalling widnows just to fix a sapi error is a bit extreme in my book. ii used to reformat and reinstall all the time when I had sight still. I know how to do an unintended install but have not done it. I have been running on the same install of windows for the past 2 1/2 years here and I try to keep my system in top shape as much as I can. tonight I finally fixed that speech applet error message by reinstalling the speech component of Microsoft office xp that I have on my system and all is well. ,g> I like to tinker around a lot and play with voices and such and every once in a while something breaks. ,g> thanks for the feedback to you and everyone on here. It's cool to be part of this community. god Bless, Doris At 07:20 PM 10/14/2008 +0100, you wrote:Hi Doris, If that were me, I would reinstall Windows by now <Smile>. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris & Doris Sent: Tuesday 14 October 2008 14:38 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP Hi, Barry, hi, listers! I have a bit of good news on this one at last. This morning I tried accessing the Microsoft hotfix request page for this fix in Firefox rather than in Internet Explorer and I tried using the Webvision plugin capture solving gizmo on the visual verification and it worked! It told me it had submitted it and then a couple three seconds later I was told the resolved capture had been added to my clipboard and was ready to paste into the appropriate edit box. It was so smooth! This was the first time this capture resolving thing had actually worked for me but I was thrilled!,g> I then received the hotfix by email in a password protected self-extracting archive that needs to be downloaded and extracted within a week after requesting it. I did this and tried to apply the hotfix only to be told that there was no need for me to install the hotfix as my service pack (sp3) was newer than the fix. so I still have the problem but at least was able to request thehotfix all by myself. ,g> I'll fiddle around with this some more and report back with you guys if I do get the problem fixed. I had deleted all those user lexicon files and stuff befoer btw. Thanks much and God Bless, Doris At 11:30 AM 10/14/2008 +0100, you wrote:Hi Doris, Yeah I got hit with that CAPTCHA as well. The Irony that it was on a hot fix for TTS corruption was not lost on me and a few choice words where throan about the office. hahaha I hope you can get this sorted, I also saw and tryed the deleting of the files in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech\Files\MSASR Which did nothing. The only thing that did work was the reinstall for me. Dj Paddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Doris" <chipmunks@xxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:41 AM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XPHi,Steve, Yeah, I know and I have instructions I saved on how to do this including deletion of corrupted files. However, it has not done the trick this time on my box. Maybe I have to have a look-see in the registry and see what I can monkey around with in there. I had to delete some ghost voices manually out of their sometime back. There actually is a Microsoft Hotfix for this problem but it is one that is mailed out on request only and I only got asfar as the visual verification page for it. I do not know if the hotfix was included in sp3 or not. thanks much. Doris At 08:25 AM 10/14/2008 +0100, you wrote:Hi Doris, Strainge. I have seen this fixed many times with a reinstall. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris & Doris Sent: Monday 13 October 2008 06:22 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP Hey, Steve, No, I actualy had tried that befoer with a few extra steps that actually deleted the potentially corrupted files befoer reinstalling sapi 5 but i still get this error mesage: begin quote Speech Properties The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine and/or a different audio device. OK end quote Thanks much and God Bless, Doris At 07:43 PM 10/12/2008 +0100, you wrote:Hi Doris, If you install the sapi5.inf as I outlined, you should cure your speech recognition error too. All the best Steve -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf >OfChris & Doris Sent: Sunday 12 October 2008 18:51 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Broken TTS in XP The ssapi that comes with win xp is sapi 5.1 and not sapi 4. Sapi 4 came with win 2k. I'll send you a asapi repair tool off list that you can try. If that doesn't work, you can try to reinstall sapi 5 from your xp cd. I am also having the speech recognition engine error and have not been able to fix that yet but that should not impact your being able to change the default tts voice. I'm intersted to see wwhat solutions people come up with. Cheers, doris At 05:40 PM 10/12/2008 +0100, you wrote:Folks, Here's a new one. I can't change the default TTS Engine under control panel/speech. I can preview the voices but when I hit apply it comes upwith, > >"RUNDLLAn exception occurred while trying to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl",Speech" OK " I downloaded and ran SAPI4's suite from,<http://www.o2a.com/SpeechDownload.htm>http://www.o2a.com/SpeechD ownload.ht mand it installed, "Microsoft Speech SDK 4.0 and engines Microsoft Voice, Microsoft Dictation, and the Microsoft Speech SDKOK " Convinced this would fix it.... It did not. Furthermore when I launch the Speech Applet I get, "Speech Properties The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine and/or a different audio device. OK " I've SP3 on the machine but had these problems with SP2 as well. I was actually hoping there would be a Hot Fix in SP3 that would have > >fixed it. Any suggestions? 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