Re: Orca newbie question

["Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz gmail com>]

Hi Mike,

Unfortunately, the problem you describe is a known issue related to VMware 
and the Festival speech synthesizer.  If you boot the live cd on your real 
hardware, you'll find that the speech is usable.  This issue has been posted 
to the VMware forums in the past; but I'm not aware of any easy solutions at 
this point. another alternative would be to downgrade to vMware 4.5.  For 
whatever reason, Festival works as it should with the older version.

I believe the Ubuntu folks are planning to transition from Festival to the 
Espeak synthesizer for their live CD.  When that happens, then this will no 
longer be a problem.

--Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike reiser" <metalhead1009000 gmail com>
To: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:01 AM
Subject: Orca newbie question


> Hello, I hope this is the approproiate place to ask the following
> question.  I'm a windows user and decided to try out ubuntu6.10 so I
> downloaded the live cd.  However, when I boot into the live cd and
> choose orca, it speaks but I can't understand what it is saying
> because the speach is staticy.  I can discern the voice through the
> static but can't make out what iis being spoken.  I'm using a 2.80ghz
> processor with 1gig of ram and a sound blaster audigy.  I'm also
> running it in a VMware session.  I'm very new to linux so any help
> would be apreciated.  Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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