I think it should just work. Have you tried booting from grml with the USB headset plugged in and then trying to start software speech the usual way? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:57 PM Subject: Using USB sound in Ubuntu > Can anyone help me out? I need to use Ubuntu or GRML live cd as a method > for recovering data on my desktop, however neither one of them seem to > detect my on board sound cards by default. Is there a way I can have it > work with my Plantronics DSP 500 USB headset instead then so I can get > speech? I don't have a hardware synthesizer otherwise I'd use GRML with > that. Any help or suggestions would be appreciatd. > > > Thanks in advance, > > jerry > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >