It wasn't for me; I was able to play sound and listen to Flite at the same time on a clean Slackware 10.1 installation. I have a SB Live in that box. At 10:03 PM 10/2/2005, you wrote: >I can't understand this ... Are you telling me that having 2 or 3 or 4 >things talking to a sound card in linux, is that hard? > >I want to be able to play mp3s, have software speech, listen to a blurb from >a website, and hear operating noises all at the same time, on the same sound >card. > >I should not have to do a single extra thing to get something as basic as >that to work. > >Is it really that difficult? > >Take care, >Sina > >-----Original Message----- >From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor >Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:42 PM >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >Subject: Re: Required hardware forSpeakup > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Dmix does not, however, allow one to use flite for software speech and at >the same time run mplayer or any other software that uses sound for that >matter. I have not been able to get flite to work with aoss yet, either >using aoss or by any other means. The best I got when I tried this was a >slowed-down, distorted, garbled mess. > >Lorenzo >- -- >Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFDQIxKG9IpekrhBfIRAqJsAKDFHpsCYrgXiXdFWoabifhkQ4xoMQCgseE/ >btcL/JEiFBUotnBf1Ih9CH4= >=y1eN >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
