Tom and Esther Ward writes: > From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net> > > 2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound > cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my > dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the > pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the > problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and > soundcards. I had the same exact problem with the OSS drivers, which are still the default on Fedora. I have had no problems with ALSA which is the new default in the 2.6 kernels and will be the default in the next Fedora release.