Hi Philip, Thanks for that note. As it happens I see what you mean. I was just doing some preliminary testing on MOTA when I started having problems with the SAPI voice I was using.
What happened is I switched to Acapela Heather, probably my favorite SAPI voice, when the game began locking up and the speech was very sluggish. As soon as I switched to a different voice like Realspeak Tom the problems went away. So obviously it was the SAPI voice I was using. I'm glad to know using IDispatch would resolve this problem. Cheers! On 5/6/13, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Just a couple of tips that apply whether you choose the speech markup or > not: > > 1. Avoid the direct interface from C++ to Sapi. Use IDispatch. This is a > little harder, but when you call Sapi directly from the provided C++ API a > lot of commercial voices don't work for whatever reason. Early versions of > the tts_voice implementation in BGT did this, and I had to rewrite the code > > from scratch to use IDispatch. Now it works everywhere. > > 2. I do recommend you take the time to fiddle with variants, at least if you > > want to have a completely reliable method of setting the rate and volume > etc. With the tags you have to supply them each time you invoke speak, which > > adds unnecessary overhead. In short, the settings are apparently not > persistent across speak method calls. I had to do this for pitch as it is > the only way, but I am very thankful that I didn't have to do it for rate > and volume as well. BGT now uses IDispatch calls for all Sapi communication, > > and it works really well and was definitely worth the time fiddling with the > > variants. > > Good luck. > > Kind regards, > > Philip Bennefall --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
