On the rpi2, if you use arecord without specifying an input device, it tries to record through the rpi2's sound card, which is of course not possible, and results in the error message you posted. You need to specifically give arecord the device to use for capturing from. Greg On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 04:31:32PM +0200, Jacob Kruger wrote: > Will try that first command, but, if run arecord -l, it does show > the USB adapter as an input device. > > > Thanks -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup