Check to be sure your audio files are uncompressed wav files sampled at 22050. Poser's manual is a little incomplete and incorrect when it comes to Talk Designer for some reason.

Looking at the supplied files in PP2012, I don't have PP2010 on this machine and I've never owned P9; I can see that the audio is sampled at 44100 uncompressed. Somewhere Talk Designer changed in the sample rate it can use. I just ran a PP2012 sample through PP2014. It crashed with the same error as you describe. Drop the sampling rate and previous included samples work just fine.