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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Terorist on October 01, 2003, 05:56:22 pm

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: Terorist on October 01, 2003, 05:56:22 pm

Referring to these threads:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17285.0.html
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17466.0.html

I have Win 2000, and didn't have SAPI 5.1 already installed. So I went digging...
I found this page (http://xtras.timehouse.fi/sapidoc.asp?con=6):
"Unfortunately Microsoft does not provide any ready installation executable for SAPI5. Therefore we have created an installation program with InstallShield for Windows Installer (version 1.52). This installation program is a single executable (Sapi51AndMSTts51eng.exe (http://xtras.timehouse.fi/download.asp?target=Sapi51AndMSTts51eng.exe)) that installs SAPI5 system files, SAPI5 speech control panel and Microsoft Text to Speech Engine English. You are free to use this installation program."

Apparently Win95 isn't supported, but I imagine not many really use it anymore, right?
Though it's still a 9.7Mb file, it's an improvement over downloading the whole SDK.

For more voices I already knew a source, from a time when I tried a text-to-speech program:
http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/SpeechEngine/voices.html

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: mnftg64 on October 03, 2003, 12:20:05 pm

text to speech, could rid us of the need for voice actors!

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: kode on October 03, 2003, 12:36:58 pm

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Originally posted by mnftg64
text to speech, could rid us of the need for voice actors!

if there could be a way to explain why everyone's become robots.

but yeah, it's an alternative at least. it's always been hard to find voice actors.

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: AnnihilaterD on October 03, 2003, 12:49:00 pm

And as for win95, the SCP wont work with it anyway

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: RandomTiger on October 03, 2003, 05:01:43 pm

Great stuff Terorist.
Does anyone know if it works for win98?

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: Inquisitor on October 04, 2003, 09:01:22 am

Not supporting Win95 is not a bad thing. Dropping that support is ok.

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: Lightspeed on October 04, 2003, 10:43:30 am

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Originally posted by RandomTiger
Great stuff Terorist.
Does anyone know if it works for win98?

It doesn't work for me. I have the Speech SDK installed and speech works okay in the launcher, but i don't get speech anywhere in the game.

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: Terorist on October 04, 2003, 12:34:32 pm

You might have the wrong .exe, at least that's what happened with me... I had a file named "fs2_open_r.exe" already, so I didn't bother downloading the one linked to in that first thread, but when I did try with that, it worked. I'm sure that if it works in the launcher, it'll work with that exe.

Title: Good speech sim news
Post by: Lightspeed on October 04, 2003, 04:36:08 pm

no, i have the correct exe :)