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I have CentOS 5.7. How would I go about setting up a virtual machine so as to run another Linux distro on top of it? Specifically Scientific Linux or Vinux, a special distro for blind users. I will be using the latter to test my BrailelBlaster software with gtk and the Orca screenreader. Will I have to assign memory to the VM permanently? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiesso...

Hello, I am an active member of the Vinux community and have taken on a project of remastering a Ubuntu installation Cd in order to make it accessable to a blind user. I am able to sound the system bell when the boot menu loads by adding a ^G to the label statement which works well to tell a blind user they are at the boot menu. My intent...

Hi. I'm Bill Cox, and I volunteer a bit for the Vinux project, which is Linux for people with vision impairments. Most blind users use a closed-source speech synthesis tool called voxin, as it's very easy to understand at high speed. I would like to make TTS synthesizers based on large recorded vocabularies of actual speech, but to make it usefu...

Hi, Steve. I tried your the time_scale_tests program, and it works well! Especially for low speed changes, it's the best I've heard so far. For high speed increases, there is what sounds like static added to the sound output. I've attached two sound samples of high speed speech, which is a 4X speed up of a popular TTS voice in the blind community (voxin/Eloquence). I've sped