On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Jacob Schmude wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > Getting espeak to switch cards was no problem. I just told Pulseaudio > to direct espeak to my USB speaker and that did it. I used pavucontrol > from within GNOME to do it, but I believe you can do it through pactl > as well. That's one reason I like using Pulseaudio, I can direct audio > where I want it regardless which program is generating it. > I haven't gone into the espeakup source yet, but I notice that > espeakup depends on libasound. That would suggest to me that espeakup > is not actually having espeak do the audio output for some reason, but > is interacting with ALSA directly at least for part of the process. The git version of espeakup does have an experimental option that uses alsa directly. However, I am thinking about removing this, because there is a setting in that code which is very system specific and the documentation for the alsa api leaves very much to be desired. What does everyone else think? William
