Another big change is the 64bit issue. 64bit machines were failing when Poser tries to evoke a simple system call to run a program. It looks like this is a bug in Poser b/c the python calls run fine outside of Poser. To fix this problem i had to add an Apply button to the Python Window. So you launch PoserSpeak, record your voice, then when PoserSpeak closes, you have to hit the apply button. One benefit to this is you can move the PoserSpeak window around and switch back and forth from Poser to PoserSpeak. Disadvantage is folks will forget to hit the apply button and think it isn't working. I have added a reminder prompt which you can disable to PoserSpeak.

One unique new feature worthy of mentioning is the sound track mixing capabilities. Thanks to spydog for asking for this feature as it is now part of the program. Basically, you can blend tracks in PoserSpeak giving you the ability to have more than one character speak in Poser. Since Poser only let's you assign one wav file to the stage track, PoserSpeak now let's you blend your new wav file with a previously recorded wav file. PoserSpeak can blend 16bit tracks in one of two ways. Firstly, you can mix two 16bit tracks together into a third 16bit mono track. This lowers the volume of both tracks a bit (since they are combined), but the end result is a 16bitmono track which you can keep adding voices too in PoserSpeak. The second method for blending is to create a 16bit stereo track from two 16bit mono tracks. This provides the clearest sound but is limited to only two voices (one voice for left channel, one for right). Voice tracks for SAPI5 voices are mostly 16bit mono wav files. A few voices out there are 8bit and i haven't added blending to the 8bit parts yet but i am working on it today (yippee).

I will need to update the PoserSpeak manual once all of these changes are finalized. Since things may move, i have to do the manual last. And finally, what's next (you still reading? PoserWav. These sound settings above will also serve as a test bed for wav file capabilities present in PoserWav.

That's all for now, i got work to do. Thanks again to everybody for asking questions and making suggestions. Hey Indoda, thanks for the kick in the butt last week. It really helped.

thanks for sticking with me.

TEMPLATE=binP4

RUNTIME=C:Program FilesCurious LabsPoser 6Runtime
POSER_VERSION=6
CREATED_GUI_WINDOW
CREATED_GUI_ICON
FetchVoices BEGIN
CUSTOM_VOICES=
voices found:6
Final Voices
--LH Michael
--LH Michelle
--Microsoft Sam
PRE_PLAY_BUTTONS
PRE_INSTALL_WINDOWS
PRE_MORPH_WINDOWS
CREATED_MORPH_TEMPLATES
CREATED_FETCH_TEMPLATES

PREPRESHOW

PRESHOW

POSTSHOW

The morph tab will not let me in