You could use something other than aplay? HTH, Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:25 PM Subject: software synth on old laptop > Do I have to use alsa sound drivers to use speakup with espeak? > > I've installed alsa-utils and I've run alsaconf but there seems to be a > problem. I get error messages that it can't find device 0. I have this > really old laptop with a Sound Blaster 8 built in. I've loaded the correct > modues manually 'modprobe snd-sb8' but no matter what I do, I can't seem > to > get sound at all via the alsa drivers. > > The oss drivers work fine. But I can't get speech-dispatcher to work with > espeak. I saw that in the espeak config file, it calls aplay. And aplay > won't work possibly because I'm not using the alsa drivers. Am I on the > right track here? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
