Using USB sound in Ubuntu

[John Heim]

It's not detecting your USB headset? Can you play sounds via a command line 
program like aplay?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Matheny" <starnoble at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Using USB sound in Ubuntu


> Yes I have and nothing happened. Not sure why. It doesn't detect my on 
> board sound either as I said. And yet it used to work on my old Del 
> laptop, so not sure what the deal is.
>
>
> Best reguards,
>
> Jerry
>
> On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:18 AM, John Heim wrote:
>
>> 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." 
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>> 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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