ah. that was written before I was aware that there were messages before speakup comes up so my mistake hehehe. Shaun.. "Has anyone ever tasted an "END"? Are they really bitter?" EMAIL: shauno at goanna.net.au ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO ID: blindman01_2000 IRC NICK/SERVER: |3|1ndm4n on #aussiefriends on www.jong.com:6667 On Tue, 22 May 2001, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Shaun Oliver 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. > > Or some other poliphonic soundcard. Or if you run ESD. > > > 2: Remember that if you do go down the path of software synthesys, you > > won't have speech right from the get go when you first turn your machine > > on. > > AFAIK, no-one has that. Speakup provides speech from when the kernel > loads. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >