I routinely have two USB sound cards on my desktop, plus an old AV-710 based PCI card, plus an RME Hammerfall. And, yes, I use them all in particular ways. Decent USB sound cards, with sufficient quality for good sounding speech, can be had cheap. Janina Jude DaShiell writes: > thinkpenguin.com sells sound cards that plug into usb slots and you plug > speakers into the other end of the card. On my system I have only one > analog card. Since I bought one of these usb cards I think I'll plug it > in and see if my system suddenly finds a second analog card. > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 18:17:36 > > From: Gregory Nowak <greg@xxxxxxxxx> > > Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, > > Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: getting orca and espeakup/speakup to work together > > > > I remember there used to be a way to use the pc speaker as a sound > > card. I seem to recall it was a kernel driver, but it could have been > > through alsa itself. A quick web search gives me a linux journal > > article from 1997, but nothing besides that. So, short of checking the > > config choices for a modern 4.x kernel, I don't know if this is still > > an option. Even if it is still an option, I suspect the speech > > wouldn't be very intelligible. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 03:49:10PM -0600, John G Heim wrote: > > > Is there any way to get speakup to work through the PC speaker? > > > > > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
