VmWare

[Brent Harding]

Oh, thought it was either Orca or the Festival speech. I don't much care for 
that speech engine anyways.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: VmWare


> Hello,
> The static is only a problem that affects Flite, which Ubuntu 6.10 uses by
> default.
> Espeak works perfectly.
> Hope this helps,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:56 AM
> Subject: Re: VmWare
>
>
>>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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