speakup and the sonar system?

[Erik Heil]

Hi Greg.  Very good points their.  Well, let's think about this for a 
minute.  if you install Windows Eyes on a real Windows machine, you could 
use a monitoring utility which will keep track of all system registry 
values that have been written or modified during the installation.  Then, 
you could strip out the TTS stuff, copy the binaries into their propper 
locations, and specify your hardware synth hopefully in the registry.  i'm 
not sure if this would work, but I think its getting a little closer. 
Here's why the Microsoft TTS engine won't work under Wine.  I'm not sure 
whether it has support for the MSappi stuff.  Possibly you could install 
it, and hey, it just might be able to run.  I wonder if Freedom Science 
Fiction's products do the same thing?  Its worth looking into.  With our 
luck, they probably do.

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