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

[Michael Whapples]

> And don't forget that alsa allows more than one sound to play at the same 
> time (soundcard permitting), which is definitely an advantage when using 
> software speech as you will get other sounds even if speech is going on.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Willem van der Walt" <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: Sound systems (Was:) Re: software synth on old laptop
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>
>> 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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