You might want to check out MAS. http://www.mediaapplicationserver.net/ Jan On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 03:52, Robert Rozman wrote: > Hi, > > I'm designing integrated home automation/entertainment system based on Linux > and other open source apps. I have several possible sound sources (like > Festival as speech synthesis, music players, and also possible voip or > ordinary telephony applications). > > I'd like to deal with all this stuf using signal routing and mixing. Some > possbile scenarions: > - when internet voice call comes in, then I connect to local audio card for > certain room > - when watching TV, speech synthesis would like to announce something > - from one room I'd like to talk to another... > > If I think ideally - best would be to have range of "virtual" sound > destinations, that could be dinamically routed,mixed to physical devices. As > far as my novice knowledge goes I was thinking of using Alsaplayers as > music/wav players (they have software volume control) , Jack (as sound > servers) and Ecasound (for routing, mixing) .... > > Any other advice in apps to use, more info or any other opinion would be > more than grateful. > > Thanks in advance, > > Robert. >