Isn't dmix for oss? Am I wrong? PS: I have the ability to play multiple sound objects at the same time, but have not tried any of the soft speech recntly. I was having dificulty with exactly this issue using Flite last summer with my laptop. Luke Yelavich writes: > Hi all. > I am wondering whether anybody has managed to get a deacent set up with DECtalk > software, ALSA, and the dmix plugin via asoundrc, to allow other apps to play > sound as well as your speech synth? I took an example asoundrc from the ALSA > wiki, put it in place, and made entries to allow the alsa-oss library to be > available from login, however it doesn't seem to be satisfactory. > > If anybody is interested in what I did, please let me know and I will send you > the relevant information. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040