Is it possible to get Via Voice talking on a Debian System with alsa?

[gena-j at ntlworld.com]

Hi

Thanks to all of you who offered your views on my request.  I'd
purchased Dectalk rt for  linux and I wanted to see if I could get
ViaVoice to work.  I didn't realise how buggy it had been for those who
had managed to over the old libraries etc.  Nor did I suspect that
anyone had tried with the latest alsa version.  Afterall, some of the
bugs were not down to ViaVoice but to alsa.

I'd still like to try to see if it'll work on this system that's
currently using alsa 0.9.5 to drive a Sound Blaster Live but it'll have
to wait.

Cheers.

Gena

>Hi
>
>Well the subject line says it all.
>
>Is it possible to get Via Voice talking on a Debian System with alsa?
>
>I used alien to convert the rpm's to deb's.  I needed to get an old
>debian package to provide a library.  The package required was:
> 
>libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb
>
>Having done this and ammended the /etc/profile file accordingly, I still
>get the following error:
>
>Could not create ECI handle. Check installation.
>Possible causes:
>        IBM ViaVoice TTS RTK has not been installed on this machine.
>        no exported ECIINI variable in /etc/profile.
>        eci.ini file not in path referenced by ECIINI, nor in current
>directory.        eci.ini corrupted.
>        library /usr/lib/libibmeci50.so corrupted or missing.
>        language files referenced in eci.ini file corrupted or missing.
>Re-install IBM ViaVoice TTS RTK.
>magnolia:/usr/lib/ViaVoiceTTS/samples/cmdlinespeak#
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Cheers
>
>Gena
>
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