Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop

[Chris Norman]

Cheers mate.

Chris Norman
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From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop


> Alsa if it works, because that is where future development is taking place
> and it generally allows for better control over the sound cards.
>
>
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Chris Norman wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am just thinking, which is better? OSS or ALSA?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris Norman
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>> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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>> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 9:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: software synth on old laptop
>>
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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?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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