Redirecting speakup output

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Chuck:

Hoping this finds you well ...

I also have several audio devices on each of my computers, even the
laptop. It's perfectly possible to configure Linux to assign them
predictable alsa device designations. Here's how I do it on Fedora 18.
Your distro may do it a bit differently, but I suspect the basics remain
the same.

Before I lay this out, however, let me point out that I believe there's
an even better way that I haven't yet stopped to learn involving udev
configuration.


Here's my pre udev approach ...

Sometime ago Fedora moved /etc/modprobe.conf to a set of files in
/etc/modprobe.d/. In that directory I have two files of interest:

1.)	blacklist.conf
	In this file I find it important to comment out Fedora's default
	silencing of the system beep, so that the line now reads:
#blacklist snd-pcsp

2.)	local.conf
	Here's the complete contents of this file from my main machine.

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-2 snd-usb-audio
options snd-card-2 index=2
options snd-usb-audio index=2
alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio
options snd-card-3 index=3
options snd-usb-audio index=3
alias snd-card-4 snd-hdsp
options snd-card-4 index=4
options snd-hdsp index=4
alias snd-card-5 snd-ice1724
options snd-card-5 index=3
options snd-ice1724 index=5
alias snd-card-6 snd-pcsp
options snd-card-6 index=6
options snd-pcsp index=6


As I'm sure you've noticed, the two usb devices aren't differentiated.
Fortunately, they do tend to load in the same order for me, but this
where udev should be of help once I get my head around how to use it.

hth

Janina

Chuck Hallenbeck writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using speakup with espeakup and espeak, on a system with several audio
> devices supported by alsa.  I would like to preserve the motherboard device
> as the default card0, and direct screen reader output to a different
> interface, such as card1 or card2.  Is there a way to do this? Would
> speechdispatcher  be able to do it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Chuck in Hudson.
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