Re: [orca-list] wine and orca

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Virtualbox does not have an accessible gui, but does have a complete commandline interface. 
VMware-player will work on any machine with the resources to support it and has an accessible gui. 
You'll need a couple of GB to do what you want, but if you really restrict your memory consumption, and don't 
multitask 
beyond the bare minimum you may get by on a bit less. I once ran windows XP on a gnome2-using distro on a 
singlecore 
pentium4 running at 2.8GHz that had 1.5gigs of RAM. It ran pretty well to tell the truth, with me sharing the 
RAM about 
equally. I did nothing in the Linux host when running windows though, nothing other than run Orca, 
vmware-player, and 
sometimes an audio stream that is. I'd run one windows application at a time, besides a windows screenreader. 
On a multi-core machine with plenty of ram you shoud have a pretty good experience, but I'm wondering if the 
delay that 
one experiences is also going to be seen/heard in audio playback. 
Audacity is a good program, but you should probably look at doing some things to avoid possible audio delay 
with pulse 
audio. 
Some folks have good results running realtime kernels for example, and JAC can be used to get good results 
with audio 
editing.
As Jason mentions, if your processor supports hardware virtualization you will likely also get better results 
as far as 
delays go
Depending on what you want to do there are a number of tools in addition to audacity  available in Linux that 
might work 
for you.
--
B.H.


 

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 04:42:26PM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> Amir <mrdin8877 ymail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > does wine works with orca? 
>
> No.
> > let's say i installed nvda, a screen reader for
> > windows, then will i able to use windows programs on linux? i want to use
> > goldwave. any solution?
>
> Install virtualization software, e.g., KVM or VirtualBox, then install
> MS-Windows into a virtual machine and run it on your Linux host. This only
> works well if your system's CPU supports virtualization.
>
> I don't have a Windows background, so I can't help much with specifics.
>
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