How to fix Rosetta Stone error 1117

[holdmusic]

When I open RS, it says "error 1117, and error has occurred in the speech component" and then says something about restarting the program.

Error 1117 apparently means that the program won't communicate with my computer, even though I don't operate a personal firewall. It can't detect the USB headset, so the headset cannot be used.

I've looked all over the place for the answer, but there's only a solution for PC users. What can I do about this?

 

[LPZ]

When I open RS, it says "error 1117, and error has occurred in the speech component" and then says something about restarting the program.

Error 1117 apparently means that the program won't communicate with my computer, even though I don't operate a personal firewall. It can't detect the USB headset, so the headset cannot be used.

I've looked all over the place for the answer, but there's only a solution for PC users. What can I do about this?

I had a slightly different problem, but I wonder if the problems have anything in common. Open Activity Monitor (in Utilities), select All Processes from the menu box at the top of the panel, and type Rosetta into the adjacent filter/search box. Do you have a process named RosettaStoneDaemon running? If so, what is listed for it in the "user" column?

 

[DesertWild]

When I open RS, it says "error 1117, and error has occurred in the speech component" and then says something about restarting the program.

Error 1117 apparently means that the program won't communicate with my computer, even though I don't operate a personal firewall. It can't detect the USB headset, so the headset cannot be used.

I've looked all over the place for the answer, but there's only a solution for PC users. What can I do about this?

I know you said you don't operate a firewall, but are you using a port monitoring program like 'Little Snitch'? If you are, you will probably need to add a rule allowing the Rosetta Stone app to access Hostname 'localhost' (as long as it includes 127.0.0.1) or just to the IP address 127.0.0.1 directly.

Otherwise browse this thread:

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/airport-networking-wireless-technology/218409-hosts-entry-not-working-macbook-pro.html#post1130815

and make sure these entries are present in your 'hosts' file (using the 'sudo nano /private/etc/hosts' command from the first post) and clear the cache with
'dscacheutil -flushcache':

127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

If all is well there, try setting up 'dscl' (as shown in the third post) to be configured with the entries above in red.

There was another post I found that was better/clearer for the 'hosts' stuff, but thanks to Googlies' ever shifting sands I can't find it now. If I do I'll post it.

Hope this helps (and is not too confusing).