Bulletin Type: TSN Number: 14811

Date Posted: 02/10/2003

Product Name: TestTalker

Version: 1.0

Category: Speech

Short Description:

Speech is lost when you double-click a TestTalker file (.ttk extension) to open it from Windows Explorer on a Windows NT system.

Problem:

Note that this only happens under when all of the following circumstances exist:

1. It only happens on Windows NT.
   
2. It only happens when you try to open a TestTalker file (.ttk association) in Windows Explorer.
   
3. It only happens when you do not have TestTalker open at the time.

If these cases are met, when you try to open the TestTalker file, you will get, “Unable to find or execute TTSERVER or similar EXE from SSIL.” TestTalker then opens the document. You then will receive another error message saying, "Speech drivers could not be loaded. Check the speech driver setting in Change Speech Driver and restart."

When trying to read the document, TestTalker does not speak at all. Running Repair on either Edition does not fix the problem.

Solution:

1. Close and restart the TestTalker application.
   
2. Then with TestTalker up and running (it can be minimized), through Windows Explorer you can double-click on any .ttk file, and it will open and speak.