VMWare with Speakup.

[Garry Turkington]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Sean Murphy wrote:

> Has anyone run Linux in a VMWare environment with Speakup?

I played with this at the end of last year but didn't get as far as I 
wanted due to time constraints.  I had a RedHat distro running in a VMWare 
instance on a Windows XP box and from a functional perspective all was 
working well.

My problem though was that there was a perceptable lag in the speech 
output and its stunning how badly a consistent half second delay breaks 
ones concentration.  I'd put this down to the hardware I was using though 
as a Pentium 3 667Mhz really is a bit old in the tooth for a VMWare setup 
in my experience.  VMWare is great technology but throwing lots of CPU and 
memory at it is pretty much a prerequisite.

You can download a 30 day trial version of VMWare from their website and 
the installation is relatively self-contained on the Windows side so I'd 
recommend that route.  If you've any specific questions then feel free to 
drop me an email.

Regards,
Garry