Using USB sound in Ubuntu

[John Heim]

I think it should just work. Have you tried booting from grml with the USB 
headset plugged in and then trying to start software speech the usual way?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:57 PM
Subject: Using USB sound in Ubuntu


> Can anyone help me out? I need to use Ubuntu or GRML live cd as a  method 
> for recovering data on my desktop, however neither one of them  seem to 
> detect my on board sound cards by default. Is there a way I  can have it 
> work with my Plantronics DSP 500 USB headset instead then  so I can get 
> speech? I don't have a hardware synthesizer otherwise I'd  use GRML with 
> that. Any help or suggestions would be appreciatd.
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> jerry
>
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