Re: Viavoice callback

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hi, your problem with Viavoice is not unusual. It's well known that Viavoice
has dificulty with some soundcards and some drivers.
I've seen this myself with my own computers. One computer with a SB Live
works perfectly fine while my laptop with a SBPro is vary choppy and crashes
with Viavoice.
If you are going to use alsa make sure you have a later release of alsa. I
noticed using Alsa 9.0rc6 or later seamed to fix some problems. I believe
the latest stable release of alsa is 0.9.3 stable now and and perhaps
getting the latest drivers may fix the problem, and perhaps not.
It's really a hit or miss thing with Viavoice with some soundcards.


From: James Teh <jamie jantrid net>
To: Gnome accessibility list <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 1:30 AM
Subject: Viavoice callback


> Hi all,
> I know Kenny recently posted to the list about this as well, but it
> occurred to me that there may be another issue here.
>
> First of all, can it be confirmed that Viavoice definitely has callback
> support? If so, what should the callback test in test-speech do? Mine
> says "this is test text.", and then hangs... no error, nothing, as if it
> is waiting. I can quit with ctrl+c with no problems. I can also get
> Viavoice to talk with gnopernicus, but it does exactly what Festival
> does; in fact, it reads worse.
> Another point worth noting is that using cmdlinespeak, etc. speaks fine,
> but also hangs, and requires a ctrl+c.
>
> What occurred to me just this morning is that I am running ALSA< where a
> lot would probably be running OSS. It sounds unlikely that Viavoice
> would have problems with ALSA< but you never know. Can anyone else on
> this list confirm running Viavoice with ALSA without (or even with)
> problems?
>
> Jamie
>
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