[Xastir] Festival & Speech

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

The soundcard is a SoundBlaster 16. That card is about a year old (well 
at least in my system, actual card is probably older as I bought it at a 
close-out price at Staples).  I'm not sure, but I do not believe the 
SoundBlaster cards are software-emulated. It works great when using 
other APRS applications such as AGWTracker which also has a speech 
capability.

Duffy
www.wb8nut.com

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
>
>   
>> I really doubt that is the issue. This particular system is 2.6Ghz Intel
>> with 1GB of memory.
>>     
>
> I'm running good Festival speech out of a P133 computer, but it has
> real sound hardware.
>
> Newer computers may have software-emulated sound systems, in which
> case you need a lot more processor power, plus CPU load can
> drastically affect it.
>
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> Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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