Hi, I think my prosesser is a duolcore because grml deteckt two CPUs but there is just one prosesser on the board. It's a pentiom 4, 3.0 ghz I have 1 gig and 256 meg ram in this case. I am also using a soundblaster audigy soundcard. Take care, Rynhardt * Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com> [080123 17:00]: > On your comment about using alsa in the espeak specific module > and /dev/dsp being blocked, well this is possibly to do with alsa. When > using alsa, you shouldn't try and use OSS systems directly. You will > need to use alsa-oss emulation. I think there is two ways to do oss > emulation with alsa, kernel emulation (where I think you can just > use /dev/dsp directly, or via the aoss command (eg. > aoss realplay > would start realplayer using the software oss emulation of alsa). > > Your comment about the voices is very valid, and if the > speech-dispatcher developers would like to improve the espeak module, I > think it would be good to have control over the espeak voices to > symbolic voice name mappings. It may be possible to hack round this by > removing any espeak voice data files not needed, but I am unsure of this > and don't know that I could recommend it unless the person doing it was > certain of what they were actually doing. Also I don't know if that hack > would work for being able to access voices from different languages. > > As suggested by others, there has been some particular problems on > certain hardware, so to see if it might be, what type of system is it > (eg. type of processor). > > From > Michael Whapples > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I use grml linux (http://grml.org/)