Hi Mark, It should be possible to get ViaVoice to work with your sound card, but it may require some custom coding. The company that I work for has been developing firmware for a device that runs Linux and uses Eloquence (same codebase as ViaVoice, I believe), and it also has a sound chip which apparently can only play sounds at 48khz. Eloquence and ViaVoice allow the programmer to set up a callback function that will receive sound samples, rather than having them sent directly to /dev/dsp. To get things working, my boss set up a callback function that uses linear interpolation to convert ViaVoice's 11khz samples into 44khz samples, which are close enough to 48khz to be usable provided that the speech rate is slowed by about 9%. Incidentally, I am working on an Emacspeak server (which should also work with Yasr and Brass) for Festival Lite, and it should be easy to convert its samples to play at 48khz since it outputs at 8khz with the default voice that they are using. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, mark muscat wrote: > Hello all: > I am not sure if this is off topic, but I apologise if it is, I have a problem with a system that I am at present setting up, the specs are as follows: > * Intel celleron. > * onboard graphics 8110 Intel chip set > * onboard Intel 82801 sound. > * slackware 8.0 > *kernel version 2.4.5 > The problem is: > I have compiled the sound module for the i810_audio.o and I am able to successfully add this to the kernel by using modprobe. the problem is that whenever I cat an audio file to the /dev/audio device the sound coming out is slightly fast than usual, later found that when I used play, sox was converting all my files to 48000. It appears that the chip onboard will only take things at 48000, as I proved when I used mpg123. > The major problem is that I cannot use Viavoice. I installed the two packages and ensured that the ECIINI variable was set correctly. When I played the sample program, there was no sound, nor did the programs complain. > questions: > * Has any one had any experience with this type of sound board and if so can the above be resolved? > Is there a way to get Viavoice to work at a specific sample rate? > > I would appreciate any assistance with this > thanks in advance > Mark Muscat > >