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V6.6.13 crashes on narrator

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Whenever a voice announcement is to be made, VarAC crashes.

Have activated debug log but not found anything.

OH1MAC found "Could not set narrator persona." in his debug log.

6 comments

6 Comments

hb9brj

Mar 17, 2023

Problem solved in VarAC 7.0.8: Narrator works without admin privileges under Windows 11 22H2. Thanks Irad! 🙂

hb9brj

Feb 01, 2023

Found a workaround 😀: Run VarAC with administrative rights.

73, Markus HB9BRJ

hb9brj

Jan 29, 2023

Not necessary to wait for a narrator activity. It is sufficient to enter settings and check "Narrate CQ". Without even saving the modified settings, VarAC crashes immediately. Nothing to see in log file.

Windows 11 Professional 22H2 22621.1194.

When replacing VarAC.exe V6.6.13 by V6.4.15, everything is working fine again.

irad d

Jan 29, 2023

I would still need a log file to work with. not debug. regular.

send to iradirad@gmail.com

irad d

Jan 29, 2023

if it crashes it should provide an long detailed error message in the log files or on screen.

Please provide them so I can examin.

Irad

hb9brj

Jan 29, 2023

Replying to

Sorry, neither a message on screen nor an entry in my debug log.

But found this in Event Viewer > Windwos Logs > Application:

Faulting application name: VarAC.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0xa506f2be

Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.22621.1194, time stamp: 0xb9218ada

Exception code: 0xe0434352

Fault offset: 0x001478a2

Faulting process id: 0x0x3BCC

Faulting application start time: 0x0x1D933EA2E92EA84

Faulting application path: J:\ProgramFiles\HamRadio\OperatingModes\VarAC\VarAC.exe

Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNELBASE.dll

Report Id: 123090fd-ce4a-4b09-8c4a-52586043b023

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Application: VarAC.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.

Exception Info: System.PlatformNotSupportedException

at System.Speech.Internal.Synthesis.VoiceSynthesis..ctor(System.WeakReference)

at System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer.get_VoiceSynthesizer()

at System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer.SetOutputToNull()

at System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer.SetOutputStream(System.IO.Stream, System.Speech.AudioFormat.SpeechAudioFormatInfo, Boolean, Boolean)

at System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer.SetOutputToDefaultAudioDevice()

at VarAC.VarAC+<>c__DisplayClass843_0.<narrate>b__0()

at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(System.Object)

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)

at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)

at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()