Speakup Sans Synth?

[Holmes, Steve]

Just curious, can ViaVoice be used with a 486 with 32 meg?


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ward [mailto:tward at bright.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 11:11 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Speakup Sans Synth?


I also think that Viavoice would be a good addition to Speakup if it can be
done.
I know that Emacspeak does supportit, and I use it on my laptop for that
purpose.



----- Original Message -----
From: Terry D. Cudney <terry at wasagacottage.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup Sans Synth?


> 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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