Oh, thought it was either Orca or the Festival speech. I don't much care for that speech engine anyways. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: Re: VmWare > 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 at doorpi.net> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
