Speakup Sans Synth?

[Terry D. Cudney]

Hi Janina,

	This sounds very interesting, especially for a laptop/portable w/ builtin sound support. Care to share with us what was involved in getting it running with alsa?


You wrote:

-=> Hmmm, what would it take to wire up ViaVoice TTS? Believe it or not, I
-=> have ViaVoice working under ALSA, though I understand it's not supposed
-=> to. At least the kernel I'm now running has no OSS compiled in though
-=> there are some OSS modules in /lib/modules/2.2.17.
-=>
-=>
-=> On 10 Dec 2000, Kirk Reiser wrote:
-=>
-=> > Hi Janina:  With the cvs code you certainly can boot with the synth
-=> > either turned off or not connected.  There isn't much if any
-=> > performance hit as you call it.
-=> >
-=> > I was planning on not releasing a new version of speakup until I had
-=> > the synth modules stuff written, but a number of folks have been
-=> > lobbying for a new release before then.  I'd be interrested in hearing
-=> > folks opinion on this subject.
-=> >
-=> >   Kirk
-=> >
-=> >
-=>
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		--terry

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