Anyone got ViaVoice working on 7.1?
Hey all, I have an SBLive!, and I've installed it using YaST, so I guess it's using the ALSA drivers. Having plenty of trouble with ViaVoice (the downloadable version). I had it working at least partially on 7.0, but now the test-your-speakers part just makes scratchy noises, even though I can play music and talk through my microphone (ahh, feedback ;-) just fine. Also the Java seems to crash, probably due to incompatible SDKs and runtimes. Java is so sad. It's a wonderful idea, write-one-run-anywhere but it's not even backwards compatible! Not in my end-user experience anyway. Anyway.... if anyone's got it working I'd like to hear what you had to do to get it that way. Any any other speech related stuff - I couldn't get festival to compile either. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:40:31PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Hey all,
I have an SBLive!, and I've installed it using YaST, so I guess it's using the ALSA drivers. Having plenty of trouble with ViaVoice (the downloadable version). I had it working at least partially on 7.0, but now the test-your-speakers part just makes scratchy noises, even though I can play music and talk through my microphone (ahh, feedback ;-) just fine. Also the Java seems to crash, probably due to incompatible SDKs and runtimes.
Java is so sad. It's a wonderful idea, write-one-run-anywhere but it's not even backwards compatible! Not in my end-user experience anyway.
Java is write-once-debug-everywhwere(TM)
Anyway.... if anyone's got it working I'd like to hear what you had to do to get it that way. Any any other speech related stuff - I couldn't get festival to compile either.
---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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Java is so sad. It's a wonderful idea, write-one-run-anywhere but it's not even backwards compatible! Not in my end-user experience anyway.
I have to agree. IBM recommend the Blackdown JDK for Via Voice. As opposed to, for example, their own! I used to work at the IBM labs at Hursley, England (and will be back there in a month) where they produce both Via Voice and the IBM JDK. I asked on the internal net system why the two products where incompatible. I didn't get a conclusive answer, but I think I touched a bit of a nerve!
Anyway.... if anyone's got it working I'd like to hear what you had to do to get it that way. Any any other speech related stuff - I couldn't get festival to compile either.
I got Via Voice to work perfectly on 6.4 with a bog standard SB16. Sadly 'perfectly' means 'as well as it does work, but 90% ain't good enough for me'! I deleted it shortly afterwards.
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