Problems with software speech

[Zachary Kline]

Hello,
    Thank you very much for this information.  I am using the in-kernel Alsa 
support, so am a little unsure if configuration files apply here.  Might 
anybody be able to enlighten me on this?
I've checked my alsamixer setup, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of 
headphone line volume.  It's funny: when I boot into Windows first, I have 
master and PCM, and when I don't, I have...Something else.  I am not very 
good at diagnosing Alsa problems, and not good either at navigating 
Alsamixer, so...
Thanks for all your help, and I hope to hear from you soon.
Have a good day,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mikster4 at msn.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: Problems with software speech
> Let's be helpful here, now the reason may be known, but how to solve it.
> Well as far as I know, alsa can do software mixing as well, you will
> need to use a dmix device in the alsa configuration files. All the
> possibilities with alsa configuration is quite wide, so it would be best
> to read about it in the alsa documentation or search the internet for a
> suitable solution. Also make sure that the software itself is really
> using alsa, some programs still use OSS (trplayer, realplayer, flite,
> freetts (so firevox plugin if you are using freetts), etc). If you need
> to use something which uses OSS then it is still possible to use
> software mixing, get it to use the alsa-OSS compatibility system by
> putting the aoss command at the beginning of your command for the app
> which uses OSS (eg. "aoss realplayer" will run realplayer with OSS
> output going through alsa-OSS compatibility layer).
>
> I don't actually know about your headphone issue, but it sounds like
> alsa doesn't know about configuring (or it isn't configuring) a setting
> for muting speakers when using headphones (it sounds like the switch is
> software based rather than being a simple switch system. I think due to
> the comment about the behaviour when using windows). Guesses at a
> possible fix:
> Check that alsa doesn't have a control for it somewhere.
> See if the problem is solved in updated versions of alsa (if you are not
> using the latest).
> Last resort might be to find out if headphone and speaker volume can be
> set separately (I know my laptop soundcard alsa gives a headphone
> volume), and then you create two scripts (or one which either takes
> options or knows how to toggle) that you run to mute speakers but not
> headphones and to unmute speakers, and then you run this/these when
> connecting and disconnecting headphones.
>
> Hope some (if not all) of this is useful.
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
>
>
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