Speakup Sans Synth?

[Thomas Ward]

Using Viavoice on a 486 would be a mistake. You need at leasta pentium
166,and I found it only really starts working good on 266 and above.
With 32 MB of ram then you would need a large swop, but it is always better
to have more physical ram then swop.
I have 64 MB of ram, and a AMD K6-2 500 MHZ processor and Viavoiceworks fine
under those conditions.




----- Original Message -----
From: Holmes, Steve <SAHolmes at ahcccs.state.az.us>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 8:29 AM
Subject: RE: Speakup Sans Synth?


> 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
> > -=> >
> > -=> >
> > -=>
> > -=> --
> > -=>
> > -=> Janina Sajka, Director
> > -=> Technology Research and Development
> > -=> Governmental Relations Group
> > -=> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> > -=>
> > -=> janina at afb.net
> > -=> (202) 408-8175
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> > -=>
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> > -=>
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> > -=>
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> users.
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> > -=>
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> >
> > --terry
> >
> > Name: Terry D. Cudney
> > Phone: (905)735-6127
> > E-mail: terry at wasagacottage.com
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> >
> >
> >
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