Premise Sound problems on premise

[ajeysp]

Hi Everyone,

I have currently installed Premise on windows 2003 server OS. I did this since Premise does not seem to work on Windows Vista (I have both these OSes on my machine).
However I am not able to generate sound on the windows 2003 server. It is unable to find/load the multimedia audio controller (the same works well when i run the windows vista OS). I tried downloading and installing the AC97 sound driver. But it just doesn't work. My motherboard is an Intel board (D865DGF).

What do you suggest? Does Premise work on windows XP? If so i might them remove windows vista, install windows xp and then try installing premise on that.

 

[samgreco]

Ajey,

I am running Premise on Vista 64 currently without issue, except possibly Text to Speech, which I haven't tried, but understand it probably won't work.

My suggestion for getting Premise to work on Vista is to turn off UAC and install Premise into a directory off of root. ie: C:\Premise. That seemed to solve all of my issue with it. Although I seem to recall having to kill a hung process during the install.

 

[ajeysp]

Ajey,

I am running Premise on Vista 64 currently without issue, except possibly Text to Speech, which I haven't tried, but understand it probably won't work.

My suggestion for getting Premise to work on Vista is to turn off UAC and install Premise into a directory off of root. ie: C:\Premise. That seemed to solve all of my issue with it. Although I seem to recall having to kill a hung process during the install.

Thanks for your quick response. I will definitely try to install again as you have suggested on vista. Yes my install attempt too did result in a hang and now i am stuck with a partial install. It doesn't show up in the list in the add/remove programs, but does show up in the programs section.

I want to use the text to speech feature though.

 

[123]

I can confirm that the MS-SAPI driver works well if Premise is installed on Windows XP (right up to XP SP3). I could not get it to work under Vista nor could I get the SAPI COM object to work from within Premise.

Can anyone confirm that the MS-SAPI driver works on Windows Home Server (WHS)? I think Chuck is running Premise on WHS.

 

[chucklyons]

Ajey and 123...my wife is really irritated at you guys ...I hadn't really messed around with the MS-SAPI driver...so I saw your post, thought, what the heck.

So when she came back from the store....'Your Home!' (Your spelled intentionally vs You're...sounds better)

So yes, it does work on WHS/Windows 2003...You need to make sure you have the zone volume up, and the audio device volume up..The only thing I did was to bounce the premise service - I didnt see the MS-SAPI in the Add-ins, although I may have missed it...It took me <30mins to install. Rob is genuinely missed....

 

[samgreco]

Not to hijack this thread, but...

Chuck - do I understand that you are routing the TTS through your matrix device? I never was able to make that work when I was playing with TTS way back when.

 

[chucklyons]

Yes, now that I think about it....I use the onboard sound, which is a Realtek HD Audio device, plugged into one of the inputs on the ZPR68-10...press and play!

Now hopefully, you won't jinx me!

 

[samgreco]

Thanks. I have the ZPR68-10 too. I'll have to play with it when I get the chance.

 

[chucklyons]

Not so quickly....yes, there is a 'bug'...If I have audio playing thru it, I wont hear the SAPI - so I'll need to figure out how to do muting or something, but muting doesnt seem like it would/should work?

 

[123]

Thanks, Chuck! Looks like I have a green light for getting a Home Server equipped with WHS.

Be warned that when Premise Server is restarted and MS-SAPI is initialized, it will announce "Premise speech is initialized". This has a very low WAF when it happens in the middle of the night after an extended power failure ...

I used to think that it would simply announce whatever text-string was left over in the TTSData property but now I'm sure that blasted phrase is buried somewhere in the driver's source code. I asked Rob for the source but he couldn't locate it.

FWIW
I'm writing a "SpeechClient" Minibroker driver implemented as a Windows Service. Install it on a remote PC and the Premise Server will be able to talk through the remote PC. It is loosely based on "MediaClient", a Minibroker sample application, that lets the Premise Server play music through remote PCs (although its never worked for me). The goal is to have "SpeechClient" serve as a replacement for MS-SAPI on Vista (and Windows 7). Well that's my goal ... so far all I have is a Windows Service that can connect to Premise Server.