man I wrote those words over a month ago. hahahahaha. On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Bruce Kingsbury wrote: > > > > 1: aAs far as I'm aware, software synthesys ties up a great deal of system > > > resources including the sound card unless of course you run a sb-live. > > How much is "a great deal" exactly..? software speech was possible on my > old 386 and even the most low-end pentium runs 50 times the speed of that! > tts takes only a tiny fraction of the CPU power required for speech > recongition or a winmodem. > > > Geoff pointed out that you can get a card with multiple streams. There are > > a number able to do this. But there are other considerations. > > Not a consideration at all, 'esd' will happily mix as many different > audio streams as you want and play them all through a simple SB16 or > onboard ES chip.. just make your TTS output through esd rather than > direct to /dev/dsp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
