Archive for February, 2006

Speak Aloud new version

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

We just updated the Speak Aloud application. Please try.
Update:
1. Add support for WMA speech codec
2. Update the Active TTS dll.
 

Record Skype calls

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Have you ever wanted to record skype conversations?
When you are doing skype, there are two sound streams. One is the microphone input, which is your own voice. The other is the remote voice from the one you are chatting with. The two sound streams needs to be mixed and recorded in real time.
Audio Record Expert [...]

Does your spam filter work well?

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Recently I sent an email to a customer who is using yahoo’s email service. But it seems he didn’t get it. Then I sent it again. He still didn’t get it.
So I have to doubt if his spam filter blocks my email. But I have no way to contact him except email. So I have [...]

Delay between StopRecord and StartRecord

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

A customer wants to do a quick start recording after stop recording when using our Active Audio Record object. He is concerning about the delay between the two calls.
I would say the delay is pretty small. The time is spent by the two calls, which is dependent on the sound card reaction speed for stopping [...]

MSI installer on demand

Monday, February 20th, 2006

The shortcut created by MSI installer may be a GUID, not directly points to an executable.
You can have a look at the word or excel shortcut if they are on your desktop.
The magic behavior of MSI is that if it finds some dependency is missing. It will run the setup application again. That is so [...]

Email support

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Email is the mainly support method of Guangming Software. Sometimes we use MSN messenger to help customers to resolve issues promptly.  
We normally process support email in 24 hours. Due to possible time zone difference, it may take a bit longer than expected. So please be patient.
 

A trick on converting html with flash to image

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Normally when a html page is fully loaded, there will be an event generated by web browser.   
Pages with flash movie can be different. Since flash movie has a feature that loads itself from servers. With this feature, it is hard to tell when the flash movie has been fully loaded. The web browser first downloads a [...]

How to register Active TTS with your code

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

After purchase, there will be a code sent to you via email. Normally the order email will be sent in several hours. If you don’t receive it, please check your spam folder (sometimes, it may happen). If it is not there, please send email to us. We will help check the status.

The code is used [...]

Use Active Audio Play Object in C#

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Our Audio Record component has  simple playback functions for mp3, wma, ogg or wave files.
You can use play object in C# easily like the record object since it is a standard COM object like the record one.
In the C# project, assume you have added the AudioCtl.dll as reference. The following is a function [...]

Happy Valentines day

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

Do you have a nice day?