VmWare

[Alex Snow]

The 6.10 iso uses flite (or festival, I forget which) as its tts.  
THis has issues with vmware for some reason...give 7.04 a try, it 
switched to espeak which fixes the static problem.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 
at 08:56:48AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote:
> I tried this with VMWare Player. I was going to load up the Ubuntu 6.10 iso 
> and install it on a virtual machine this way. I used easyvmx.com to generate 
> the proper files and chose the ES whatever sound card it would use by 
> default. Everything seemed to go OK until Orca loaded, and I got odd 
> static-like noises instead of speech. I think sound is definitely broken 
> some how in VMWare Player. I might uninstall that and try server instead.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeremy" <l84ad8r at gmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: VmWare
> 
> 
> > Late reply to one of the earlier posts on this subject. I had asked a
> > question about how to get a installation of linux running in a vm,
> > and, I have to say that I did get it working. It Turned out to be
> > very easy, but, I was wondering about sound support in the vm as I
> > was just using speakup through my serial port. It was kind of cool
> > when I got it working as I was on skype on the windows host and it
> > never gave me any trouble, but, I am guessing that getting some sort
> > of software synth working would not work unless I had another
> > soundcard to rout it through? I am not even sure if I can find
> > drivers for my soundcard that is built into this laptop, but, that is
> > a question for another time I suppose. If someone can tell me more
> > about how this kind of thing works, that would be wonderful. I
> > noticed that someone did get software speech going with a vm, so,
> > figured I would ask.
> > Thanks bunches.
> >
> >
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known as "the buggiest kernel ever".
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