Yes I have and nothing happened. Not sure why. It doesn't detect my on board sound either as I said. And yet it used to work on my old Del laptop, so not sure what the deal is. Best reguards, Jerry On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:18 AM, John Heim wrote: > 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 at gmail.com > > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
