It's not detecting your USB headset? Can you play sounds via a command line program like aplay? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:35 PM Subject: Re: Using USB sound in Ubuntu > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
