On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:43:11PM EST, David Bruzos wrote: > Hi again: > One of the problems with software speech is that most laptop sound hardware can not play multiple sounds at the same > time. This can be a big problem, if you like to listen to music or play any other sounds while using your computer. I > have this problem on my laptop and I would like to fix it... If you use ALSA, there is in fact a plugin to do just this called dmix. the downside is you have to write a somewhat complex configuration file to make it work properly, and then it requires a lot of tweaking to get right, and even then you can't get best results. I suggest going to http://www.alsa-project.org and looking through their documentation section about this. Luke