Problem Report Bulletins

PRB: Unable to resume paused SAPI4 playback

The information in this article applies to:

• SpeechKit 4, 5

Symptoms

Invoking ResumePlayback has no effect after PausePlayback with SAPI4 voice.

Cause

AudioStop event, as a result of the PausePlayback, cleared the original StartPlayback request from the queue.

Status

Fixed in SpeechKit 4 build 4.0.128.0.
Fixed in SpeechKit 5 build 5.0.8.0 (Win32).

Note that PausePlayback and ResumePlayback requests are counted. If you invoke PausePlayback twice, you need to invoke ResumePlayback twice to actually resume the playback.

Component Formats Impacted

All component formats.