Frozen Install: Additional Speech Voices

I have the same problem on the same file most of the time (i.e. extracting AdditionalSpeechVoices). I've also tried repairing disk and the DVD never fails the check it does before the install. Mine was a clean install so my old stuff is gone already. I thankfully have backups. Hope to see a solution or workaround soon.

Thanks.

My Macbook Pro installed Leopard fine. My Powermac G5 at the office froze during installation. After many attempts, I erased one of the hard drives. The OS installed once, but acted strangely. It froze on me 3 times this morning, so I decided it needed to be reinstalled. I erased the disk again and my installer has frozen on every subsequent attempt to reinstall the OS. I even tried to erase the disk and put Tiger back on it. The Powermac G5 won't do a thing. I'm pretty freaked out. My install doesn't freeze at the same point as yours. Mine is generally just after the Quicktime install(during the iTunes install). Have you had any breakthroughs?

Yup, I have exactly the same issue. I've tried numerous standard ways to get Leopard installed on my Macbook Pro. It installed a couple of times initially but everytime it just ended up killing my machine - one wouldn't even boot it just kernel panicked after the Apple logo.

I just changed my Leopard disk yesterday at the Apple store in Regents Street, London. I told them the issue. The manager I spoke to acknowledged that they had one other person come in reporting the same issue. However the weird thing was that that "one" individual must have spoken to practically member of staff, because of the four people I spoke to all of them were aware of it. Surprise, surprise, when I tried to install it last night it failed....

Fortunately we have statutory rights on our side over in the UK and as far as I am concerned this product is not of merchantable quality (nice Trading Standards term) and therefore I will be returning it today and this time I will be asking for my money back - regardless of Apple's terms of sale for software.

I'm really annoyed as pretty much everyone else I know has Leopard running fine on their machines.

OK, I resolved my issue. It appears that Leopard extracts packages to memory before installing them to the drive. For some reason the AdditionalSpeechVoices package was dumped to a section of memory that after a hardware test (off the DVD - I used my Tiger disk) proved to be screwed.

So in the first instance, if you haven't tried it yet. Do a hardware test of your machine. If it is memory it will produce an error message (pretty quickly in fact) that will look something like this:

4MEM/1/40000000:0e456f

If you get this it's probably time to open the machine and remove all of the memmory and test each stick one at a time until you find the faulty one.

Once I had removed the bad stick (it was the one that actually came with my Macbook Pro - 4 weeks out of warranty :S) I tested my third party stick got the all clear and Leopard installed a dream.

YMMV, but this was the issue for me so I HTHs 😀

Can you repair the disk, first? Disk Utility is in the Menu Bar of the second screen when installing.

Thanks a lot!
It worked for me too!
I tried 5 times, all the options - still the same error about AdditionalSpeechVoices.
Removed new ram modules, and it Worked!!!

I'm encountering the same issue with my PowerMac G5 2 x 2.3 GHz. I'll test the sticks...

I am having the same issue, but have tested my ram multiple times and Hardware test is not giving any errors to me (extended or quick test...)