IBM's ViaVoice Outloud...

[Minime80]

I was on freshmeat looking for some gaim plugins and found a plugin that uses this ViaVoice thing to take what you say and type it in. I just wanted to know if anyone's used this, and if it's worth the huge download (I only got 56K). It sounded neat to me, and when I went to IBM's site I found that I could download it for free. Oh, another question, does anyone know which one of the downloads I need. There's an SDK which I doubt I'll need, but there's two runtime kits. One called ASR and one called TTS. Do I need them both? Thanks fellas.

[Minime80]

Well crap. I went ahead and downloaded all of 'em. Then I untar the damn thing and it's an .rpm package. I've got Debian. So I apt-get rpm and then try to install the darn thing. Now rpm is giving me this sh!t.

error: failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libc.so.6 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libm.so.6 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libpthread.so.0 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2

Is there a debian package for this thing, or what do I need to install to get this stuff fixed? Thanks.

[Minime80]

Man, the more I work on this the more I get confused. I just tried some locate calls and every one of the files on that error list was installed on my system. WTF?

I found another message board with some posts on Debian and ViaVoice, but it kept saying something about setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to where the library 'really' is, and I got confused. Where the hell is LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[ 28 February 2001: Message edited by: Minime80 ]

[Minime80]

Am I the only one looking at this thread. Anyways, I did rpm --install --nodeps ViaVoice* and it installed. Then I had to install jdk to get the damn setup to run. After that it went fine until I got to the microphone setup. It keeps stopping and saying Not Enough Data Recorded. I never told it to stop. In the FAQ it says that I should adjust the gain on my mic, but I don't know how. Anyone?