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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I can’t say for Centos specifically, but Debian does allow me to use software speech with Speakup without an issue inside of Vmware.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On the new M chip based macs at the moment there is an issue where the first micro second of speech output gets chopped off, but that’s not something you have to worry about in Windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I usually use Debian as my local speech terminal and then ssh into whatever system I wish to manage so that I don’t need to modify the remote system at all to gain access.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>charles.vanek--- via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> charles.vanek@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] VMWare Workstation Pro Sound Card Passthrough<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi virtualization experts in the group.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I need to setup CentOS 7 (TL:DR it’s for a legacy test, no need to explain the EOL nature of CentOS). Does anyone hear know if speakup synthesizer can pass the screen reader software synthesizer back to the host machine (Win 11 pro) successfully?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, Hyper-V even when following the recommendation can’t pass CentOS audio back to the host.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alternatively if anyone is aware if Oracle VirtualBox can successfully pass the synthesizer audio back to the host let me know. Trying to save some time finding a solution.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>