Martin, If you have SpeakUp running it is likely to be about 2 minutes before your Pi crashes, as I have said, so whether you can record at the same time, which you can, is not really helpful. Mike On 29/05/2013 14:15, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > If you have speakup running, is it possible to play > other sounds via the same audio output? > > Is full-duplex recording possible where the sound card > output is speakup but one is recording audio from some outside > source? > > Most P.C. sound cards support mic and line inputs and > one can access /dev/dsp for recording at the same time that > speakup is talking. > > I have run across a few sound cards with analog loopback > settings in amixer. I have been able to enable that feature and > capture speakup's audio in the recording which is useful if you > are scanning radio frequencies and want to know which > frequencies are active while one is away. > > If you can get the receiver to output its frequency when > the squelch opens, you will hear the readout mixed in with the > audio. It is definitely not something you want to do all the > time, but it comes in handy on occasion. > > Mike Ray writes: >> I'm a ham too, G4XBF. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers