software speech for speakup

[Shaun Oliver]

wow! I remember writing those exact words over a month ago or close to
anyway.
Shaun..


On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Bruce Kingsbury wrote:

> 
> > > 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
> 
> 
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