hardware speech

[Keith Barrett]

On 12/10/2012 03:01, Tony Baechler wrote:
> I have good and bad news.  The good news is that hardware speech works
> great on X86-64 systems.  I use both a DECtalk Express and Trippletalk
> serial with no problems at all.  The bad news is that hardware speech is
> broken in kernels after Squeeze, so you don't get hardware speech in
> testing, unstable and Wheezy.  If I load the DECtalk Express module with
> kernel 3.2, it completely locks the system.  It would be interesting if
> hardware speech works on X86 32-bit systems with the 3.2 kernel, but I
> doubt it.
Well, I have a 32 bytt system here running wheezy and speech is ok on 
that at the moment.  It is an external apollo by the way.

Will need to check which kernel it is running but maybe the 32 bytt 
versions are working.



>
> On 10/11/2012 1:54 PM, Keith Barrett wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me the current state of hardware speech on debian?
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