I'm not sure. I just connected the USB headset to the computer and booted up the live cd with accessibility support so Orca should have come up talking through it. Not sure what else I should try. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Jerry On Jun 12, 2008, at 12:31 PM, John Heim wrote: > It's not detecting your USB headset? Can you play sounds via a > command line program like aplay? > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble at gmail.com > > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
