Re: ViaVoice (98) in Wine

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:37, you wrote:
> > No problem - a log with my normal setup, and one without the module for
> > the 10 channel card loaded attached (I wanted to see for myself if that
> > makes a significant difference in the behaviour of Wine).
> >
> > Yours,
>
> OSS thinks your sound card doesn't support volume control on the input.
> Not much you can do about that.  I assume this is OSS on ALSA?  Then it's
> an ALSA OSS emulation issue (assuming the card really does support it).
> The peak meter issue is not a problem because most drivers don't support
> it.
>
> Does the software really refuse to work because of no record volume
> control? That shouldn't be a fatal error.

Maybe - since ViaVoice is quite agressive to tweak the microphone gain ...

Have you seen the invalid handle in the log?

trace:msacm:acmDriverDetailsA ((nil), 0x504840, 00000000)
trace:msacm:acmDriverDetailsW ((nil), 0x77a7eebc, 00000000)
trace:msacm:acmDriverOpen (0x77a7e3e4, (nil), 00000000)
warn:msacm:acmDriverOpen invalid handle
trace:msacm:acmDriverOpen (0x504c94, (nil), 00000000)
warn:msacm:acmDriverOpen invalid handle

Maybe via voice fails due to that ... at least it matches what I found in the 
speech engines log (oh - I mistyped the wine list address of the mail 
containing this information, yesterday - resent it now):

AudMME: Set Audio Input --------------------------------- [Jun 06 12:29:1 
2005]
    Using record device # 0 which is a Analog Devices AD1980
    AUDMME will use device # 0 for recording
    AUDMME will use device # 0 for playback 
    PCM Device               WAV Audio Adapter
       Default Record Device WAV Audio
     Default Playback Device WAV Audio Adapter
    acmDriverDetails failed, rc = 5
    acmDriverOpen failed, rc = 5
    acmDriverDetails failed, rc = 5
    acmDriverOpen failed, rc = 5
    Alphabet/Language/Codepage: R Gr_GR 850

a returncode of 5 seems to be:

#define MMSYSERR_INVALHANDLE  (MMSYSERR_BASE + 5)

Yours,

ViaVoice (98) in Wine

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:53:39 +0200, René Rebe  wrote:
> acmDriverOpen

from MSN  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/multimed/ht...

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MMRESULT acmDriverOpen(
   LPHACMDRIVER phad,
   HACMDRIVERID hadid,
   DWORD fdwOpen
);

Parameters

phad

Pointer to a buffer that receives the new driver instance handle that can  
be used to communicate with the driver.

hadid

Handle to the driver identifier of an installed and enabled ACM driver.

fdwOpen

Reserved; must be zero.

ALSO

MMRESULT acmDriverDetails(
   HACMDRIVERID hadid,
   LPACMDRIVERDETAILS padd,
   DWORD fdwDetails
);

Parameters

hadid

Handle to the driver identifier of an installed ACM driver. Disabled  
drivers can be queried for details.
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If OSS / Alsaoss is feeding nil it seems like VV is a dead-end until some  
more work is done on this.

ViaVoice did exist as an IBM linux project but it is no longer supported,  
you could try to find some old rpms or something. It was later  
open-sources AFAIK .... ?

It seems that Dragon NS would be a more fruitful path to investigate since  
I have established that the speak rec. engine does work under wine.

Also , although VV was bad Dragon does provide better results and has  
evovled further. It is still a commercially supported program.