software speech for speakup

[Bruce Kingsbury]

> > 1: aAs far as I'm aware, software synthesys ties up a great deal of system
> > resources including the sound card unless of course you run a sb-live.

How much is "a great deal" exactly..? software speech was possible on my
old 386 and even the most low-end pentium runs 50 times the speed of that!
tts takes only a tiny fraction of the CPU power required for speech
recongition or a winmodem.

> Geoff pointed out that you can get a card with multiple streams. There are
> a number able to do this. But there are other considerations.

Not a consideration at all, 'esd' will happily mix as many different
audio streams as you want and play them all through a simple SB16 or
onboard ES chip.. just make your TTS output through esd rather than
direct to /dev/dsp