Trying to run VoxCommando on Windows Server

[fuzzysb]

the error says "Voxcommando has stopped working" before the program loads

I have .net 3.5.1 & 4.5.2 installed, the machine is a VM running Windows 2012 R2 hosted on Vsphere 5.5 host. the VM has the HDAudio sound device installed, however i want to use this headless with no local sound. but rather use this to trigger TTS over my sonos devices.

i do get two error events in the event log these are

Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          3/26/2016 3:42:35 PM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx
Description:
Application: VoxCommando.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.Exception
Stack:
   at eval_ᜇ.eval_ᜀ(System.String, System.String)
   at eval_ᜇ.eval_ᜀ(System.String, System.String)
   at VoxCommando.VoxOptions..ctor()
   at eval_g..ctor()
   at eval_ᜤ.ᜀ()

and

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          3/26/2016 3:42:35 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx
Description:
Faulting application name: VoxCommando.exe, version: 2.2.1.6, time stamp: 0x56ca3229
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x54504ade
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x00014598
Faulting process id: 0x1438
Faulting application start time: 0x01d187761a61b08f
Faulting application path: C:\VoxCommando\VoxCommando.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 5c2c0caf-f369-11e5-9455-0050569d6d58
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

[jitterjames]

It's not appropriate to make a bug report. Voxcommando does not run on server because there is no desktop speech engine on windows server.

You may be able to run the SP version though.

[fuzzysb]

my apologies as i am pretty new here and i couldn't figure out exactly where to post... anyway thanks for the feedback after jumping through a few hoops i have got MS Speech platform working with some of the Cereproc SAPI voices i had bought.

i just wasnt sure where to start from the error messages i was receiving where the fault was.

its working well and i have it integrated with Samsung SmartThings. please feel free to delete or move this thread

[DexDeadly]

Hey Fuzzy, mind sharing what you did with me either here or PM?  If I can move this to one of my other VMs instead of running a full blown windows 10 machine like I have it running on now.  Still tweaking with the best way to run this.