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An overview of the installation process
The software installation requires an active internet connection.
- Registration
- Once you've registered you will be emailed a unique Speech Toolkit serial number in a file called "SpeechToolkit.reg". This serial number is associated with your email address. Use it to install the software on any number of machines.
- Table of contents
- The installer establishes an HTTP connection (through a proxy, if configured) to our download server. The Speech Toolkit serial number is used in a database query to determine which table of contents to download. (We restrict downloads of the C source code to qualified registrants only.)
- Download
- Modules selected from the table of contents are either retrieved from the installation disk or downloaded via HTTP in 1Mb chunks. If the download is interrupted and restarted archive chunks in the download directory will be checked for integrity. Ones that fail will this check be refetched and the installation process will continue. Once all the chunks for a module have been retrieved they are concatenated into a ZIP archive. If the "Download only" option was not selected, the module is extracted from the archive and installed in the target directory. If the "Remove archive files after installation" option was selected the archive is then deleted.
- Setup
- The final module installed creates the required registry entries and file associations and populates the Start menu.
- Licensing
- The installer establishes a connection to our licensing
server. A query containing the Speech Toolkit serial number
(associated with the user) and a unique host ID (associated
with the machine the installer is running on) returns a list
of license keys that enable Speech Toolkit features.
The licensing step can be repeated by running the "Licensing" program from the "Speech Toolkit"->"Admin" Start menu entry.