software synth on old laptop

[Chris Norman]

You could use something other than aplay?

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:25 PM
Subject: software synth on old laptop


> 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?
>
>
>
>
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