This is not necessarily true. I have had ViaVoice running over ALSA which now comes with an OSS emmulator. On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi > First thing to check is if you're using the alsa drivers. If you are, > ViaVoice will not work correctly. I've never figured out whythis is, but it > must be some bug in the ALSA drivers. > > > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:23:55AM -0500, w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org wrote: > > Hello, > > Me and several friends have slackware 7.1 and are attempting to run > > viavoice. The demo cmdline programs start to speak but hang with what > > appears to be unexpected return codes from library functions. We're > > wondering if we may have an incorrect version of a shared library. > > Any suggestions welcome. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.html Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/technology/accessapp.html