hello, Speakup now comes with espeakup, which does what speech-dispacher and speechd-up is supposed to. On Nov 25, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if a duplicate of this appears, I sent it Sunday but it's > not hit my inbox or the archives. > > I've been using Speakup on a single Linux machine for years, using > CentOS 4.x and a Dectalk Express. This last means I've remained > reasonably oblivious to the software speech machinery. > > In a recent international move however I've had a bunch of equipment > die, including my main server and the aforementioned Dectalk among > other items. So this gives me the opportunity to do some > rationalization. Basically I want to Speakup-enable a Linux box which > will have as a main part of its role to be a VMware Server host. > Consequently I'm looking for a relatively stable OS, ideally one of > the server variants out there. > > With only hardware synths to worry about this would be reasonably > trivial as Speakup is my only dependency. But if I need to use > software speech -- and especially with my preference for some > commercial voices -- I need get speech-dispatcher and speechd-up > working. > > This is where the server variants get tricky as they tend not to have > any of this stuff in the main repositories, or indeed many of the > dependencies. I just installed CentOS 5 in aVM to play with and it > looked like this was going to turn into a major self-build activity. > Ubuntu Server comes out of the box with no audio and I'm having a bear > of a time getting that to work. > > So, anyone had success with either of the above or got other > recommendations? I've got Debian 5 installing as I type and am musing > on just using that booted to runlevel 3 as an interim solution at > least. Basically I want a host OS where the upgrade cycle on > dependent packages and kernels is relatively slow, with the server > hosting many VMs extended uptime is important. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Garry > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
