Hi. I am just thinking, which is better? OSS or ALSA? Cheers, Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM Subject: Re: software synth on old laptop > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Aplay is an alsa program, so it won't work with oss. You need to use > play instead, if you're using oss. > > Greg > > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0600, John Heim wrote: >> 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 > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFWOXk7s9z/XlyUyARAk0yAJ9WUV2TrFeVbNX2BhOb7Fcdx12QbACcDYBG > naAei15OBY80yTc8J+IaNAw= > =hr43 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
