Hi,

This is probably obvious, but do you have a sound card in the VM? In my 
experience sometimes they lack this bit of virtual hardware without manual 
addition.
Otherwise, I honestly can’t think of anything to check, other than stuff on the 
physical machine.

Best,
Zack.
> On May 27, 2016, at 4:51 PM, norman <li...@thekingstech.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello all.
> The question was slightly misunderstood. I'm the friend that rosanna 
> mentioned was helping her.
> The actual situation is that we were trying to install talking arch and the 
> installer will not talk.
> I have vmware workstation player on her computer and set up a vm for it. 
> However, when connecting the cd and booting the vm there is no audio.
> The distro used was downloaded from here.
> https://talkingarch.tk/download.php
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
>> Subject:     Re: [arch-general] question from a new member
>> Date:        Wed, 25 May 2016 17:52:58 -0700
>> From:        Zachary Kline <zkl...@speedpost.net>
>> Reply-To:    General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org>
>> To:  General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Did your friend actually go through the process of installing Talking Arch? 
>> If so, espeakup should have been installed as one of the manual steps 
>> involved. If not, you need to do this yourself. It isn’t difficult, but you 
>> won’t have speech feedback obviously.
>> Log in as root, and then run “pacman -S espeakup alsa-utils,” hit y, and 
>> then, “systemctl enable espeakup.service.”
>> If all this was already done, obviously disregard this advice, but the 
>> system is pretty simple to get going in a VM.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Zack.
>> > On May 25, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Rosanna 
>> > Hostetler<rhostet...@consolidated.net>  wrote:
>> >
>> > a question on talking arch    Hi all, I am new to the list and don't 
>> > remember how to start fresh, so I just had a friend help me get VMware on 
>> > which I put or he helped me put talking arch linux on it. The question I 
>> > have, is how do I get talking arch to talk when I run the program? Thanks 
>> > in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 5/23/2016 7:41 PM, Noah Schoem wrote:
>> >> See the Arch wiki beginner's guide
>> >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide>for installation
>> >> instructions.  If you're looking to remove microsoft from your laptop, I
>> >> would recommend deleting all of the partitions on the hard drive.
>> >> Details on how to do that, and more information on the disk utility that
>> >> comes on the Arch iso, are available at the wiki's page on parted
>> >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Parted>.
>> >>
>> >> Signed,
>> >> Noah Schoem
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, message<let...@openmailbox.org>  wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Readers,
>> >>>
>> >>> Can someone please suggest a suitable wiki web page to help, for removal
>> >>> of m$ (e.g. lenovo ideapad 100s) and installation of archlinux?
>> >>>
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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