On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Sean Murphy wrote: > Has anyone run Linux in a VMWare environment with Speakup? I played with this at the end of last year but didn't get as far as I wanted due to time constraints. I had a RedHat distro running in a VMWare instance on a Windows XP box and from a functional perspective all was working well. My problem though was that there was a perceptable lag in the speech output and its stunning how badly a consistent half second delay breaks ones concentration. I'd put this down to the hardware I was using though as a Pentium 3 667Mhz really is a bit old in the tooth for a VMWare setup in my experience. VMWare is great technology but throwing lots of CPU and memory at it is pretty much a prerequisite. You can download a 30 day trial version of VMWare from their website and the installation is relatively self-contained on the Windows side so I'd recommend that route. If you've any specific questions then feel free to drop me an email. Regards, Garry
