cannot get clips.bat to work   

I am a poor animator who hates manual lipsync and who hopes you still check this forum. This is such a good idea. However, I cannot get clips.bat to work. It executes and exits before I can move from command prompt window to speechpad window.

My steps were:

• • open viavoice
  • open speechpad
  • turn off microphone
  • goto command prompt window
  • run clips.bat
  • goto speechpad
  • turn on microphone
  • dictate
  • turnoff microphone
  • close speechpad
  • close viavoice

My machine is an old sony pcg-r505gl laptop running windows XP. Viavoice runs fine by itself.

By the way, from 1993 to 2002, I was a programmer in the language modeling group at Dragon Systems working by and large on Dragon NatSpeak, so I should be able to get this thing to work. Hope to hear from someone.

Chip Moore

Below are contents of two log files

lipswf.log message is

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Starting

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• Connected

No recognition sessions active.

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Terminating

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engine.log message is

Copyright

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007

IBM ViaVoice Speech Recognizer

(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corp. 1991,2004.
All Rights Reserved
Licensed Materials - Property of IBM

U.S. Government Users. RESTRICTED RIGHTS -
Use, Duplication, or Disclosure restricted by
GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation.

Engine Starting

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007
Module c:\progra~1\viavoice\Bin\engine.exe
c:/progra~1/viavoice/temp
c:\progra~1\viavoice\Bin\engine.cfg

WsInt - Configuration

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007
Configuration File c:\progra~1\viavoice\Bin\engine.cfg
Increased priority for thread fffffffe

WsInt - System Variables

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007
SPCH_RUN c:/progra~1/viavoice/temp
SPCH_BIN c:\progra~1\viavoice\Bin
SPCH_RO c:\progra~1\viavoice/vocabs
SPCH_USERS C:\Documents and Settings\chip/Application Data/IBM/ViaVoice/users
SPCH_PATH C:\Program Files\ViaVoice\Vocabs\Langs\%L\pools
SPCH_TRN C:\Documents and Settings\chip/Application Data/IBM/ViaVoice/temp

PCM-AP - Starting

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007
Decoder - Starting

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Oct 06 01:44:12.808 2007
Built 19:48:28 Apr 14 2005 @
Name VV R10 ANIMATION
Type PRODUCT 0
Version 10.0.1.144

SPCH_PORT 1569
Mailman - Accepted socket connection.

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Oct 06 01:44:12.818 2007
Mailman: Received connection from client. Accept socket 264.

Mailman - Socket select warning!

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Oct 06 01:44:12.828 2007
Mailman: Warning, select woke on connected socket 264 but no data available.
Closing a shared session

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Oct 06 01:44:12.828 2007
WSI:DispatchMessages - Exiting on Usage Timeout

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Oct 06 01:44:22.832 2007

PAP: Close Session

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Oct 06 01:44:22.832 2007
PCM State PCM_Idle
AP State AP_Idle
Closing all sessions

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Oct 06 01:44:22.832 2007
Session ended

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Oct 06 01:44:22.832 2007

> My installation still does not
> work. What was odd is that I did not find an engine.log file in the
> viavoice\temp directory until after I ran clips.bat. When I start
> viavoice there is a current version of engine.log in the
> c:\docume~1\chip\applic~1\ibm\viavoice\temp directory and no version in
> progra~1\viavoice\temp directory. After I run clips.bat, there are
> current versions of engine.log in both directories.
>
> I uninstalled the toolkit and reinstalled it, but the results did not
> change. I will try and figure out how to get viavoice to use the
> viavoice\temp directory for the engine.log file. Not sure why that may
> make a difference, but that is the only thing I can think to do right now.

It is possible to run several instances of ViaVoice at once. They are kept separate by specifying the SPCH_RUN environmental variable. Apparently, your installation of the ViaVoice dicatation product sets SPCH_RUN to c:\docume~1\chip\applic~1\ibm\viavoice\temp So, in the clips.bat file where you see

set SPCH_RUN=c:/progra~1/viavoice/temp

replace it with

set SPCH_RUN=c:/docume~1/chip/applic~1/ibm/viavoice/temp

I don't know when the installer was changed, but I guess I'll have to change the scripts to look in this new location.

Mike