interesting experiment.

[Igor Gueths]

Another problem is that sound modules don't load until the filesystems are
mounted. And viavoice isn't a kernel level synth, besides the fact that it
can't be anyway. This I would think is why Speakup doesn't support
software synths as of yet.

Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> But could I use it with Speakup, to hear the voice only after the system
> boots?
> Or is not supported at all? no  drivers, etc.
>
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:24 PM
> Subject: Re: interesting experiment.
>
>
> > Hi teddy.
> > viavoice won't be supported by speakup as I understand it because it's a
> > nonfree package and the source code isn't freely available.
> > as for the problem with the dec-talk pc, the issue is, needing dictionary
> > files to be loaded into the synth at boot time.
> > You can't do this until the file systems are properly mounted. So, if one
> > gets a kernel panic, you wouldn't know about it because you wouldn't have
> > speech from kernel load.
> > hth
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shaun Oliver
> >
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> > > >                 -- Wernher von Braun.
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