Are you running 5.1 sound on linux? What type of sound card/drivers do you useand how well does it work? Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Whitley CTR Cecil H" <WhitleyCH.ctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:21 AM Subject: RE: Software synths > Hi Janina, > I agree that there is an issue with keeping the speech stream out of the > music stream. I actually had a thought on that when I read your message. I > have 5.1 surround sound, it would be possible to put the voice stream to the > rear speakers and therefore keep it separate from the music stream coming > through the front speakers. I don't know if any of the software synth > developers would be interested in enabling this as an option, but it is one > possible solution. A "separate" sound device like "voice" in the mixer > might also be an option, but i'm not sure if that would address all issues. > It would allow recording software to supress that device for it's incoming > data stream. > > Don't get me wrong, I have no bias against hardware synths and I do wish > development on them would continue. It would be so nice to have a firewire > or usb connected hw synth! Especially one that the manufacturer would > publish enough documentation for to enable a speakup/yasr/emacs speak driver > to be written. I guess even a PCI hw synth would be helpfull, but PCI like > ISA before it will eventually go away. > > Regards, > > Cecil > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
