Difficulty implementing Rynhardt's suggestion, which was: ALSA_CARD=1 espeakup When I exported the above environment variable, I saw that it needed quoting, so I added single quotes: ALSA_CARD='1 espeakup' I somehow got it to work, so that screen reader output went to alsa card 1 instead of my default card 0, but found that I could no longer issue output to that default card. It appears that setting ALSA_CARD implies hw:x,0 and plughw:x,0 no longer works. That means I lose dmix, and the only sounds I can play are my screen reader output. Seems like the solution may require some asound.conf programming, and I'm not sure I'm up to that. There is a speech-dispatcher package for my distro, and after installing it I saw in the speechd.conf file that an alternative alsa device can be specified. But I can't seem to locate a speechd-up connector to use with speech-dispatcher. Anybody know where I can get a current copy of speechd-up that works? Ain't computers fun? -- Chuck in Hudson.
