On 18/11/2014 07:48, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I'm trying to figure out ways of making it possible to drive Linux from > Windows speech recognition (NaturallySpeaking). The goal is a system > where Windows runs in a virtual machine (Linux host), audio is passed > through from a USB headset to the Windows environment. And the output of > the recognition engine is piped through some magic back to the Linux host. > > the hardest part of all of this without question is getting clean > uninterrupted audio from the USB device all the way through to the > Windows virtual machine. virtual box, VMware fail mostly in delivering > reliable audio to the virtual machine. > > I expect KVM to not work right with regards to getting clean > audio/real-time USB but I'm asking in case I'm wrong. if it doesn't work > or can't work yet, what would it take to make it possible for clean > audio to be passed through to a guest? I'm adding two people who might know. Do you have any idea what the "magic to pipe data back to the Linux host" should look like? Does a normal serial port (COM1 for Windows, /dev/ttyS0 for Linux) work? Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html