I think mplayer can be built with or without alsa support. Alternativly try using mplayer with aoss like: aoss mplayer file.wav Regards, Willem On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > When I play a track with mplayer I can not use speech with speech-dispatcher, > however, if I use alsaplayer I can use my speech. > > Does anyone know why this is? I thought both players support alsa? > If so how can I make mplayer work like alsaplayer and let my synth talk at the > same time? > > Thanks for any help, > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > d.dalton@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list