hey, I'm just wondering where everyone is even getting the via voice rpms. I tried searching for hours and hit nothing but dead ends. If anyone can send them to me, I'd appriciate it. Jim Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > You need to generate the eci.ini file. This can be done with the > inigen program included with the ViaVoice RTK. The command would look > something like this: > /usr/lib/ViaVoiceOutlout/bin/inigen /usr/lib/enu50.so > /home/user/eci.ini > where user is the name of the user which will use ViaVoice. Then, in > that user's .bash_profile, put something like: > export ECIINI=/home/user/eci.ini > Note that an absolute path must be used, $HOME will not work for > whatever reason. The reason you want to put the eci.ini file in the > user's home directory is that ViaVoice needs to write to it. That'll > clear up that particular error message. > However, ViaVoice and ALSA don't tend to get along. I've never been > able to make it work, I think it depends on what kind of card you > have, your kernel version and other things depending on your system. > If you're lucky, you'll be one of the few who makes it work with alsa. > If it doesn't, short of using either an OSS/Free or a commercial OSS > driver, there's not much you can do about it. IBM has discontinued it > and no longer updates it, and it's riddled with bugs. One of the main > bugs is that it seems to segfault after using it for around 20 minutes > or so. My advise is either get used to the sound of one of the free > software synths or buy the linux software dectalk, which runs fine > under alsa and is compatible with emacspeak, yasr and gnopernicus. > Only disadvantage of that is, of course, that you have to pay for it. > Speakup developers, any plans to include a software dectalk driver? > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:42:32 +0100, gena-j at ntlworld.com wrote: > > >Hi > > > >Well the subject line says it all. > > > >Is it possible to get Via Voice talking on a Debian System with alsa? > > >
