Install w/o hardware synth (Re: What's the advantage of a hardware synth?)

[John Heim]

About your second question -- installing with just a sound card (ie w/o a 
hardware synth).

I will bet that you can do it simply by booting with a grml CD and using the 
grml installler grml2hd. I would try that first.  I haven't actually done 
that though.

Something that I know will work because I've done it is to boot from a 
knoppix modified cd and then manually doing each installation step., fdisk, 
debootstrap, etc. I haven't actually done this in a while, but what you can 
do is boot from the speakup modified knoppix CD at
ftp://mirror.services.wisc.edu/mirrors/linux/distributions/speakup/disks/knoppix/KNOPPIX-speakup-V3.4-20040714.iso
Then follow the instructions at this page:
http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html

That would probably be the hard way.   But I know it will work.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "randy turner" <rturner222 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Glenn at home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>; "Speakup is a screen review 
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: What's the advantage of a hardware synth?


>
> hi glenn,
> can you give me the link to the isa computers?
> also does anybody know of a document
> that explanes how to install linux from scratch using just a sound card
> for there speach?
> say that you had a formatted drive with nothing on it
> now if you have a doubletalk you just put in the install cd and type
> speakup.s speakup_synth=dtlk
> is there anything simular if you just had a sound card?
> thanks in advance
> randy turner
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Glenn at home wrote:
>
>> The main reason is if the sound card doesn't work, we have the reliable
>> synth to be working.
>> I don't know if it can be compared to windows, but in windows, if we have 
>> to
>> boot with no drivers, some internal speech cards would work with no 
>> drivers
>> installed.
>> And I do have a link to a 300+ dollar motherboard with an ISA slot.
>> I think there are some less expensive ones out there, but they were 
>> limited
>> to a slow bus speed, and a 2GB processor at best.
>> Glenn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan Duddington" <jsd at clara.co.uk>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:41 PM
>> Subject: What's the advantage of a hardware synth?
>>
>>
>> In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611081636470.1525 at darkstar.example.net>,
>>   randy turner <rturner222 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> do they still build any computers with the older isa slots?
>>> also has any company built any pci synths that will work in linux?
>>> what are the choices that are left for linux??
>>
>> I'm not visually impaired and I've not used a hardware synth myself,
>> but I'm curious.  What is the advantage of a hardware synth over a
>> software synth?
>>
>> I can think of a few possibilities, but I'm curious which are true and
>> are important for those who use or prefer hardware synths:
>>
>> 1.  It doesn't affect the computer's sound system, which can therefore
>> play other sounds unaffected by the TTS.  This could probably be
>> achieved for a software synth by using two sound cards.
>>
>> 2.  System startup messages can be spoken before the point when the
>> sound system and synth software is initialized and working.  This would
>> be overcome by the proposed "Spoken Boot" feature.
>>
>> 3.  Problems with installing and setting up a software synth.
>>
>> 4.  Prefer the sound of the hardware synth voice to those currently
>> available with software synths.
>>
>> 5.  Limitations of computer processor power or memory, although I doubt
>> this is an issue now.
>>
>> 6.  The hardware synth offers some feature not available in the
>> software synths.
>>
>>
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