Hello, The static is only a problem that affects Flite, which Ubuntu 6.10 uses by default. Espeak works perfectly. Hope this helps, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:56 AM Subject: Re: VmWare >I tried this with VMWare Player. I was going to load up the Ubuntu 6.10 iso > and install it on a virtual machine this way. I used easyvmx.com to > generate > the proper files and chose the ES whatever sound card it would use by > default. Everything seemed to go OK until Orca loaded, and I got odd > static-like noises instead of speech. I think sound is definitely broken > some how in VMWare Player. I might uninstall that and try server instead. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy" <l84ad8r at gmail.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 2:27 AM > Subject: Re: VmWare > > >> Late reply to one of the earlier posts on this subject. I had asked a >> question about how to get a installation of linux running in a vm, >> and, I have to say that I did get it working. It Turned out to be >> very easy, but, I was wondering about sound support in the vm as I >> was just using speakup through my serial port. It was kind of cool >> when I got it working as I was on skype on the windows host and it >> never gave me any trouble, but, I am guessing that getting some sort >> of software synth working would not work unless I had another >> soundcard to rout it through? I am not even sure if I can find >> drivers for my soundcard that is built into this laptop, but, that is >> a question for another time I suppose. If someone can tell me more >> about how this kind of thing works, that would be wonderful. I >> noticed that someone did get software speech going with a vm, so, >> figured I would ask. >> Thanks bunches. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
