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Need to save text file to wave under classic asp
I have a web application that is written in classic asp and one of it's functions is to take a date string and convert it to a wave file using text to speech and then save it to a folder on the server. This was working using a third party activeX dll and the Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 but now it has stopped working. When it tries to create the speech object I get a create object failed error in the IIS log. The only difference I can see is that we are now running it on 64 bit Windows 7 instead of 32 bit but I have IIS set to run in 32 bit mode. Unfortunately the third party activeX component is no longer supported. Can anyone provide me with some sample code in classic asp to perform this operation or is there a better way?
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make sure your IUSR account (or whatever account you use to run the site) has permissions to the folder where the dll resides
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By default it put the dll in the system32 folder but I tried moving it to the root folder of my application and re-registered it but still same result. Should I be using the 32bit or 64 bit version of the dll?
you want to use the version that your application pool is using.
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That's what I thought. Can't this be done without the third party dll?
no, classic asp doesn't have any kind of built in functionality such as that...
what's the exact error message you're seeing in the log file?
what's the exact error message you're seeing in the log file?
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ASP_0177_:_8004503a|Server
You need to keep it in system32. When you went to the new machine, did you remember to give it permissions?
There are going to be a lot of javasctipt options that may be easier.
http://www.masswerk.at/mespeak/
https://github.com/hiddentao/google-tts
http://www.jtalkplugin.com/
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API
as well as api's you can hit via xmlhttppost
http://tts-api.com/
http://www.ispeech.org/api
I have only used https://www.twilio.com/ but for what you are doing, that may be a cost factor.
http://www.masswerk.at/mespeak/
https://github.com/hiddentao/google-tts
http://www.jtalkplugin.com/
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---Introduction-to-the-Speech-Synthesis-API
as well as api's you can hit via xmlhttppost
http://tts-api.com/
http://www.ispeech.org/api
I have only used https://www.twilio.com/ but for what you are doing, that may be a cost factor.
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I unregistered it and then I moved it back to the system32 folder and now I can't register it. It acts like it is missing something but I was able to register it in my web app folder. Very weird. I am going to reboot and try to register it again.
I thought about javascript but the problem with that is this application will sometimes be used in a closed network environment so it may not have access to the api site.
I thought about javascript but the problem with that is this application will sometimes be used in a closed network environment so it may not have access to the api site.
What about trying SysWOW64 instead of system32?
Using an external api may not work, but if you load the js files on your own site it should be fine.
Using an external api may not work, but if you load the js files on your own site it should be fine.
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about the syswow64 folder. Microsoft sure got those system folder names backwards.
I was able to register it now and I enabled permissions to it for the IIS_IUSR and IUSR accounts but still got the same error.
I was able to register it now and I enabled permissions to it for the IIS_IUSR and IUSR accounts but still got the same error.
I know that registering dll's get tricky.
What about using the command line? I found http://jampal.sourceforge.net/ptts.html
You can use asp to hit the command line. I use image magick http://www.imagemagick.org/ for images and use the command line via classic asp. Works very nicely (once I got the dll to work with server 2012)
What about using the command line? I found http://jampal.sourceforge.net/ptts.html
You can use asp to hit the command line. I use image magick http://www.imagemagick.org/ for images and use the command line via classic asp. Works very nicely (once I got the dll to work with server 2012)
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That would probably work. How do I trigger the command line using asp?
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Thanks. I will run with that.