Re: [orca-list] recommended text to speech engine other the ne-speak

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Thanks Luke, that makes things clearer for me, and hopefully I won't
make that mistake again.

Michael Whapples
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:40 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:31:00PM EST, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > When you are running i386 software on you x86_64 machine I believe that
> > it is through some sort of compatibility mode? Does this mean that you
> > need to be running an i386 distribution or can the i386 support work
> > from inside an x86_64 distribution (IE. can you have a mix of x86_64 and
> > i386 software running on the one system)? Does running i386 software on
> > your x86_64 machine mean that you loose some of the advantages of your
> > x86_64?
>
> An X86_64 compatible CPU can run either an X86_64 operating system or an i386 operating system. In terms of 
> Linux, you can have things set up a few ways. First, you can have a completely X86_64 operating system, i.e 
> all programs are built for X86_64. Secondly, you can have an X86_64 kernel, with an i386 userspace. This 
> means that the kernel will allow the accessing of 4GB or more of RAM, etc. I386 userspace means that 
> everything from the runtime libraries, to all your every day applications are built for use with i386. 
> Since you may have 4GB or more of RAM, the system can fully utilize this RAM, however applications can 
> still only use 2GB of RAM at a maximum. It is also possible to have a complete X86_64 system, with 
> libraries installed for i386 applications to be used, most distros do things this way.
>
> To use ttsynth/voxin on an X86_64 system, you are going to need i386 versions of the libraries that 
> ttsynth/voxin depends on.  The names of these packages varies from distro to distro, but on Ubuntu/Debian, 
> the ia32-libs package should install what you need. The only other issue is installing the gcc 2.95/glibc 
> 2.2 library that ttsynth/voxin needs. Since for Debian/ubuntu at least, this is an i386 deb, it cannot be 
> installed onto an amd64/X86_64 Ubuntu/Debian install. You are going to have to unpack the deb manually, 
> copy the library to where it should go, and create symbolic links etc as needed.
>
> Once ttsynth is set up, you will then need to work out how it will be linked and will communicate with the 
> various speech backends.  This is an exercise for the reader, as while I've given it thought, I don't have 
> a solution in mind, however given demand, I may consider coming up with something relatively easy for 
> Ubuntu users.
>
> Hope this helps clear up a few things.
>
> Luke
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