New File Added: Song Announcer - Page 2

diablo_sv21 · February 27th, 2009, 06:35 PM

Song Announcer has been updated!

diablo_sv21 · February 27th, 2009, 06:36 PM

Well that took a long time. Hehehe. I love simple plugins :-)

Have a crack at the updated version, no more repeating announcements for you!

skeal · February 28th, 2009, 04:23 PM

great
i'll test tomorrow

do you know any GOOD TTS-Voice that doesn't sound like a crappy robot from the 80's?

Ripplinghurst · February 28th, 2009, 08:37 PM

Boy, I can't wait to test this out...still updating my carputer...

Carz · March 1st, 2009, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skeal

great
i'll test tomorrow

do you know any GOOD TTS-Voice that doesn't sound like a crappy robot from the 80's?

If I'm not mistaken, during my short exploration with the first version of Sound Announcer, it uses the robotic sounding default TTS voices that come with WinXP or Speech SDK 5.1 on my car PC. Perhaps I did not select Microsoft Anna TTS (I've installed for use with Garmin Mobile PC as it supports it) as default in Speech Control Panel.

However, again during my short exploration of the updated Sound Announcer on my notebook, it seems to be using the more natural sounding Microsoft Anna TTS (checked MS Anna TTS is selected as default).

I may be mistaken as testing time is short and CF is currently refusing to load after installing/updating some plugins (will find out later which one is causing Remote Access Connection Manager error, high cpu and hard disk usage).

If anyone is interested in MS Anna TTS, you can download the trial version of MS Trips & Streets 2009 here and extract the MSTTSEng_21 folder to install. Vista users do not need it as MS Anna TTS already comes with it.

Edit:

Ok. Just found out it is the latest version of Sound Announcer causing CF to hang. Tried MS Mike TTS with same result. If music was playing when exiting CF, Sound Annoucer will announce the song at loading screen. That's when CF will hang. If music wasn't playing when exiting CF, CF will resume fine. However, if I were to manually skip to another song, CF will hang. Resuming and skipping songs do not have an issue after I uninstalled Sound Announcer to troubleshoot. Able to duplicate the issues twice by reinstalling and uninstalling again. On the second uninstall, CF initial setup wizard that you only get upon first run started... weird.

Event viewer no longer logs Remote Access Connection Manager errors. Could be separate issue or when PluginBrowser and/or SkinBrowser attempted to check for update but failed to do so when CF hang.

Scott, hope the above can help you fixed the issue in your next update at your own time.

Carz · March 1st, 2009, 02:09 PM

Ok some updates...

After the last round of uninstalling Sound Announcer where I reported CF started the initial setup wizard, CF refused to start again at the initializing audio screen. Starting CF with -disable3rdplugins parameter yield the same problem. Uninstalling all 3rd party plugins don't help either. So I uninstalled and reinstalled CF from scratch and installed only v1.1 of Sound Announcer. So far no issues. Will test further with other plugins one at a time just in case it was a combination of plugins causing the problem I reported.

Scott, sorry in advance in case I've jumped the gun.

diablo_sv21 · March 1st, 2009, 05:56 PM

That's OK Carz, I only got to see both your posts at once. But it certainly sounds like CF was giving you some grief.

I think Microsoft TTS has a few issues of it's own which can mess with CF a bit (Like that first issue with the Song announcing twice, I had to work around the problem because it wasn't actually an issue with me code).

I hope it stays good for you this time.

Carz · March 2nd, 2009, 02:33 AM

No problem at all. I can do with the "grief". In fact, I'm happy that I have plugins to play with that extend the capabilities of my ICE. So a little issue now and then does not bother me too much. Otherwise, I would have stick to an OEM ICE with no option to play around. Don't we all here prefer it this way, otherwise we wouldn't be here at this forum would we?

diablo_sv21 · March 2nd, 2009, 04:59 PM

Too right!

Carz · March 14th, 2009, 03:06 PM

Hi Scott,

SA does not support audio cd at the moment does it? I just tried it on my car pc and it announced something along the line like "unknown song, track or something" (can't remember specifics).

If cf title bar can show the current playing song, there must be some ways SA can read them out too? No?