software synth on old laptop

[Gregory Nowak]

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Aplay is an alsa program, so it won't work with oss. You need to use
play instead, if you're using oss.

Greg


On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:25:00PM -0600, John Heim wrote:
> Do I have to use alsa sound drivers to use speakup with espeak?
> 
> I've installed alsa-utils and I've run alsaconf but there seems to be a 
> problem. I get error messages that it can't find device 0. I have this 
> really old laptop with a Sound Blaster 8 built in. I've loaded the correct 
> modues manually 'modprobe snd-sb8' but no matter what I do, I can't seem to 
> get sound at all via the alsa drivers.
> 
> The oss drivers work fine.  But I can't get speech-dispatcher to work with 
> espeak. I saw that in the espeak config file, it calls aplay. And aplay 
> won't work possibly because I'm not using the alsa drivers. Am I on the 
> right track here?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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