WoW VoiceBox Beta 0.4 Now released

[blast3r]

Instead of testing this software out I decided to create some new shammies on Mag and join the zerg. Been busy getting things rolling. I'll hopefully try this out this weekend.

[Anozireth]

Hmm, I haven't seen that error when I tried it on a couple different systems. I'll try to look into it. Here's some more information that would be helpful for me to fix it.

• Do you see the window pop up before it crashes?
• Does the Vista speech recognition try to start at all?
• Have you updated to Vista SP1?
• Go to c:\windows\Microsoft.Net\framework and you should see a few folders with different version numbers. See what the highest version is, such as v3.5, v2.0.xxxxx, etc, and let me know
• Load up the "Files that help describe the problem" in Notepad and cut and paste the contents to here.
• Exact text of any error message would also be very helpful.

I will see if I can work on another version with more detailed error messages when it runs into a problem, but the above information will be helpful in the mean time.

Edit: You could also try running as Administrator, but that should not matter unless you're running WoW as administrator, so I doubt it's the problem.

[Leyuna]

Do you see the window pop up before it crashes?
The window does appear in the processline but the error msg comes right away shuting the program down.

Does the Vista speech recognition try to start at all?
The program sapisvr.exe is in the Taskmgr

Have you updated to Vista SP1?
Yes

Go to c:\windows\Microsoft.Net\framework and you should see a few folders with different version numbers. See what the highest version is, such as v3.5, v2.0.xxxxx, etc, and let me know
V3.5

Load up the "Files that help describe the problem" in Notepad and cut and paste the contents to here.
not sure where to location this one?

[Anozireth]

Hmm, that's quite strange. It sounds like you've got all the pre-requisites, so I'll have to do a little more digging or make up another version with better error information.

Edit: Leyuna, can you give me the exact text of the error message you're getting please?

[adamkm]

the program crashes for me too. So i did a little investigating.

Firstly i get the same crash in windows xp (SP3) and vista 32 (sp1) i have posted the problem details at the bottom of my post.

Ok so i tried testing as much as possible to find out where it is crashing....

If i load wow and then run your program, it starts the voice recognition program and crashes with the error. (doesnt load its frame or window). It has loaded the windows voice software and left it in "off" mode. trying to load your program again just keeps crashing over and over.

Now, if i click "start listening" on the voice recognition software and then load your program it will load OK. It has its overlay and 2 "semi transparent" boxes and a quit box. Now if i talk "sometimes" it sends the commands to the wow window, othertimes it tries launching all sorts of windows crap... i guess for some reason my voice is not directed to your program ? or it doesnt like my voice... is there something i need to do so that it ignores all other commands and only listens for your commands? or something i need to do to configure windows voice thing so it only sends stuff to wow ?...

Anyway... futher to investigating... if i right click on your box above your Quit button it also crashes with the error.

Im using .net v 3.5.... like i say, its exactly the same error windows XP or windows Vista.

i hope that lot helps, really looking forward to using this and screaming omg heal me at my screen

Thanks

Adam



Description:

Stopped working

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: CLR20r3

Problem Signature 01: wowvoicebox.exe

Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0

Problem Signature 03: 487ee3df

Problem Signature 04: PresentationFramework

Problem Signature 05: 3.0.0.0

Problem Signature 06: 470bc696

Problem Signature 07: 949

Problem Signature 08: 83

Problem Signature 09: System.InvalidOperationException

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3

Locale ID: 2057

[Depherios]

I'll definitely be giving this a try next week!

[Anozireth]

Thanks for the detailed update adamkm. I'm still looking into it at this point, but your details should help. The crash when right-clicking above the quit button seems to be a different problem, so I should have that fixed for the next release. Left clicking there should allow you to move the window.

As for the crash on loading, all I can think for people to try is to go through the Speech Recognition setup if you have not. You can do this by going to the Control Panel, then select Ease of Access, then Speech Recognition options. Clicking Start Speech Recognition should bring up the setup and tutorial if you haven't used it before.

I'm also working on the command editor for the next release. It will make it much easier to edit the commands, rather than having to edit the XML file manually.

Thank you all for helping test this! Hopefully I'll be able to get the bugs worked out soon.

[RadicalPi]

I downloaded it and it seemed to work perfectly. I only used it to type a few lines in chat for me, but it did a damn good job of doing it. If I can get this set up properly, healing will be a breeze! Thanks for the hard work, mate!

[Leyuna]

i might have found the problem and i think it is on my end.

I tried to find the speak to text setup, and i can only find the text to speak setup.
so it looks like there is something missing, kind of wierd i though vista came with a speak to text buildin.

[Anozireth]

RadicalPi, good to hear someone got it up and running easily! I was getting worried. 8)

i might have found the problem and i think it is on my end.

I tried to find the speak to text setup, and i can only find the text to speak setup.
so it looks like there is something missing, kind of wierd i though vista came with a speak to text buildin.

As far as I know, all versions of Vista come with it built in. I know I've tried it on Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. Only one I'm not sure of is Home Basic, but I think it has it too.

I've almost finished another build with better error logging. I haven't been able to figure out what would cause it not work yet, so hopefully the improved error messages will help track it down. Should be ready in an hour or so.

Edit: I decided to try and get the command editor working for this release as well, so it will take a little while yet. Should still be today though.