Adobe Captivate 4 Text-to-Speech feature gives a Dictionary Editor tool to add or change the pronunciation for a word. This tool is available at <Adobe Captivate Installation Dir>VT<agent>M16binUserDicEng.exe. The default version of this tool is not unlocked. So when a word is added/changed and its pronunciation is tested, it announces that it is a trial license. This post explains how to fix this.
Follow the steps below to correct this problem in your installation –
1. Open the Windows Explorer and browser to the directory where Adobe Captivate is installed. By default it is ‘C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Captivate 4’.
2. If the Text-to-Speech engine is installed, then there will be a ‘VT’ directory in this directory. This directory will have directories for ‘Kate’ and ‘Paul’ agents.
3. Go to directory ‘VT/Kate/M16/bin’ directory.
4. Rename the ‘UserDicEng.exe’ as ‘UserDicEng_backup.exe’.
5. Download the new UserDicEng.exe file from here and put it in this directory.
6. Repeat the same steps for ‘Paul’ agent.
Now, you should not hear the trial license message when you add/change the pronunciation of any word.
Quick Tip – We have seen that ‘Create’ is not pronounced properly by the speech engine. So, you can fix this by specifying the target as ‘cree ate’ for this source word ‘create’.
I us Adobe Captivate 7 with the text to speech voices. When I try to start the dictionary editor I get an error message “The application was unable to start correctly (0x000007b)”. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Have tried to start with all sorts of compatibility modes but without success. Is there somebody who know how to resolve this?
Seems the link above is broken. You can download the file from here – https://acrobat.com/#d=XahJkD4GguJK7BhxA0z3RQ . Please rename it with extension as EXE.
Seems the link above is broken. You can download the file from here – https://acrobat.com/#d=XahJkD4GguJK7BhxA0z3RQ . Please rename it with extension as EXE.
I downloaded the file from this new link and saved it with the correct extension. However, I’m still getting the licensing messages.
Also, I’m trying to get a good pronunciation for the word “executable” but not having much luck. Does anyone have the phonetics for this? I’ve searched on the web, but can’t find anything suitable. Thanks!
I tried downloading the new userdiceng.exe from the link in the post but I am still getting the licnesing message. I am using Captivate 5. The tool works, but it’s annoying (and time consuming) to listen to the message everytime I want to test a word. Can anyone help?
helpful if the Turkish word dictionary if you can http://turkcechat.org/sozluk
Hi Vicki,Can you please file a bug report at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=5 . I will get back to you on this.
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