The 6.10 iso uses flite (or festival, I forget which) as its tts. THis has issues with vmware for some reason...give 7.04 a try, it switched to espeak which fixes the static problem. On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:56:48AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > 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 -- Ok, I'm just uploading the new version of the kernel, v1.3.33, also known as "the buggiest kernel ever". -- Linus Torvalds
