voice problem (used to work)

[Matt]

Hey guys,

I don't know why, but the game won't hear me anymore (yes, I'm holding shift and I do hear the game "click" as usual).

I haven't played this in a while, but I wanted to get back to it... It used to work flawlessly, but it doesn't now...

When I go in my mioc settings in windows, in my Time & language -> Speech settings, it says "setup your mic for speech detection". I click on Get Started, and it immediately go into "Detecting problems". Then it gives me 2 choices: "Cortana can't hear me" and "I can't hear Cortana". This is new, from a windows update I guess, because when I did this the first time, I didn't have this. I go in Cortana can't hear me, and it gives me a list of devices. I chosse my Blue Snowball mic, then it asks me to read a sentence. It goes into the next page before I'm even done reading the stupid text, but I can see it "hears" me as the volume thing goes up when I talk or make noise. So it cuts me off and goes into the next page where it says the problem has been found: "Your microphone might need to be set up". Well yes. this is why I clicked on a darn button wich said "SET UP"

I'm out of ideas here. Can you guys help?

The microphone is plug and play, no drivers needed or anything, and it's the same mic I used to play with...

[76561198805185114]

Are you running the game in ADMIN mode? Is your computer set to US English?

[Matt]

for US english, yes. For the ADMIN mode, I'll have to check, but it sure should.

However, I have also realized Cortana seems to crash whenever I talk to her. I'm pretty sure it's Cortana's fault. When I used to play this, we didn't have cortana yet. I hate that thing. I can activate the "Hey Cortana" thing. When I say "Hey Cortana", it starts to listen to me (so clearly, windows hears AND understand me), but then when I try to give it a command like "Hey Cortana, Google 'puppies"', it just closes back down and does nothing. It's like Cortana is crashing as soon as it starts to listen to me.

I don't want Cortana. At all. I hate this thing. But I can't deactivate it... I'm sure this is the reason why I can't play the game no more... I'm so angry at microsoft... I've paid money for the game AND the mic which I purchase specifically to play this... and boom, stupid microsoft ruins everything... grrrr.

[Matt]

also, in my speech.log file, I can see some exceptions:

XCEPTION base:'one-of' must contain at least one 'item' element.
EXCEPTION src:System.Speech:0
EXCEPTION stack: at System.Speech.Internal.SrgsParser.XmlParser.ThrowSrgsException(SRID id, Object[] args)
at System.Speech.Internal.SrgsCompiler.OneOf.System.Speech.Internal.SrgsParser.IElement.PostParse(IElement parentElement)
at System.Speech.Internal.GrammarBuilding.BuilderElements.CreateChildrenElements(IElementFactory elementFactory, IRule parent, IdentifierCollection ruleIds)
at System.Speech.Internal.GrammarBuilding.RuleElement.CreateElement(IElementFactory elementFactory, IElement parent, IRule rule, IdentifierCollection ruleIds)
at System.Speech.Internal.GrammarBuilding.SemanticKeyElement.CreateElement(IElementFactory elementFactory, IElement parent, IRule rule, IdentifierCollection ruleIds)
at System.Speech.Recognition.GrammarBuilder.InternalGrammarBuilder.CreateElement(IElementFactory elementFactory, IElement parent, IRule rule, IdentifierCollection ruleIds)
at System.Speech.Recognition.GrammarBuilder.CreateGrammar(IElementFactory elementFactory)
at System.Speech.Recognition.GrammarBuilder.Compile(Stream stream)
at System.Speech.Recognition.Grammar.LoadCfg(Boolean isImportedGrammar, Boolean stgInit)
at System.Speech.Recognition.Grammar.LoadAndCompileCfgData(Boolean isImportedGrammar, Boolean stgInit)
at System.Speech.Recognition.Grammar.InitialGrammarLoad(String ruleName, Object[] parameters, Boolean isImportedGrammar)
at System.Speech.Recognition.Grammar..ctor(GrammarBuilder builder)
at towerspeakbridge.Recog.Loop()
Close from app
Close TTS thread...
Close recognition thread...




and




EXCEPTION base:The language for the grammar does not match the language of the speech recognizer.
EXCEPTION src:System.Speech:0
EXCEPTION stack: at System.Speech.Recognition.RecognizerBase.ThrowIfSapiErrorCode(SAPIErrorCodes errorCode)
at System.Speech.Recognition.RecognizerBase.LoadSapiGrammarFromCfg(SapiGrammar sapiGrammar, Grammar grammar, Uri baseUri, Boolean enabled, Single weight, Int32 priority)
at System.Speech.Recognition.RecognizerBase.LoadSapiGrammar(Grammar grammar, SapiGrammar sapiGrammar, Boolean enabled, Single weight, Int32 priority)
at System.Speech.Recognition.RecognizerBase.LoadGrammar(Grammar grammar)
at System.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine.LoadGrammar(Grammar grammar)
at towerspeakbridge.Recog.Loop()
Close from app
Close TTS thread...
Close recognition thread...

[76561198805185114]

Please try with ADMIN mode on and also use the Windows Speech not Cortana.

[Matt]

I am running in admin mode, and I'm NOT using cortana. What I'm saying is that since the last major windows update (the one that had paint 3D and stuff), which I think also changed things with Cortana, it seems to not be working anymore.

I'm also pointing out that the hey Cortana feature wakes up, but then fails to understand what I say. This makes me think that the process which tries to analyse what you say (which is part of windows and not the game, and probably the same process Cortana relies on), it just crashes.

I'm almost considering a fresh install at this point. I hate fresh installs.

[FeelThereDev]

Before you give up and reinstall everything please try to reinstall your voicepack, maybe it's broken.

[Matt]

the voicepack? How do you do that?

[Matt]

fixed it! I haad to re-download speech for us english. Really, really weird... but now it works! Thanks mate!

[76561198805185114]

Awesome!