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

[Vortek, Eater of Souls!]

hey,
I'm just wondering where everyone is even getting the via voice rpms.
I tried searching for hours and hit nothing but dead ends.
If anyone can send them to me, I'd appriciate it.

Jim


Jacob Schmude wrote:

>  Hi
> You need to generate the eci.ini file. This can be done with the
> inigen program included with the ViaVoice RTK. The command would look
> something like this:
> /usr/lib/ViaVoiceOutlout/bin/inigen /usr/lib/enu50.so
> /home/user/eci.ini
> where user is the name of the user which will use ViaVoice. Then, in
> that user's .bash_profile, put something like:
> export ECIINI=/home/user/eci.ini
> Note that an absolute path must be used, $HOME will not work for
> whatever reason. The reason you want to put the eci.ini file in the
> user's home directory is that ViaVoice needs to write to it. That'll
> clear up that particular error message.
> However, ViaVoice and ALSA don't tend to get along. I've never been
> able to make it work, I think it depends on what kind of card you
> have, your kernel version and other things depending on your system.
> If you're lucky, you'll be one of the few who makes it work with alsa.
> If it doesn't, short of using either an OSS/Free or a commercial OSS
> driver, there's not much you can do about it. IBM has discontinued it
> and no longer updates it, and it's riddled with bugs. One of the main
> bugs is that it seems to segfault after using it for around 20 minutes
> or so. My advise is either get used to the sound of one of the free
> software synths or buy the linux software dectalk, which runs fine
> under alsa and is compatible with emacspeak, yasr and gnopernicus.
> Only disadvantage of that is, of course, that you have to pay for it.
> Speakup developers, any plans to include a software dectalk driver?
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:42:32 +0100, gena-j at ntlworld.com wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Well the subject line says it all.
> >
> >Is it possible to get Via Voice talking on a Debian System with alsa?
>
> >