speech ingens

[Janina Sajka]

Tom and Esther Ward writes:
> From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
> 
> 2. Some sound cards under Fedora don't get properly configured causing sound
> cards to make speech sound very strange. I tried Fedora a while back and my
> dectalk software sounded like a chipmunk no matter what I did to set the
> pitch and rate, but when I removed Fedora and put Mandrake 9.2 on the
> problem totally vanished. So there seams to be something up with Fedora and
> soundcards.


I had the same exact problem with the OSS drivers, which are still the
default on Fedora. I have had no problems with ALSA which is the new
default in the 2.6 kernels and will be the default in the next Fedora
release.