ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi all.
I am wondering whether anybody has managed to get a deacent set up with DECtalk
software, ALSA, and the dmix plugin via asoundrc, to allow other apps to play
sound as well as your speech synth? I took an example asoundrc from the ALSA
wiki, put it in place, and made entries to allow the alsa-oss library to be
available from login, however it doesn't seem to be satisfactory.

If anybody is interested in what I did, please let me know and I will send you
the relevant information.

Luke

Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Kirk Reiser]

Luke, you haven't told us what sound card you are using.  The
multichannel capabilities depend a lot on the card.  I have had it run
just fine with softDec and the sb live.  I don't tend to use asoundrc
though I have a one liner script for setting the virtual device
volumes for mixing.

  Kirk

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Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:08:20PM EST, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Luke, you haven't told us what sound card you are using.  The
> multichannel capabilities depend a lot on the card.  I have had it run
> just fine with softDec and the sb live.  I don't tend to use asoundrc
> though I have a one liner script for setting the virtual device
> volumes for mixing.

Ah my apologies. It is simply a standard AC97 card in a ThinkPad R50 notebook.

I am quite sure this card does not have multi-channel capabilities.

Luke

Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Janina Sajka]

Isn't dmix for oss? Am I wrong?

PS: I have the ability to play multiple sound objects at the same time,
but have not tried any of the soft speech recntly. I was having
dificulty with exactly this issue using Flite last summer with my
laptop.

Luke Yelavich writes:
> Hi all.
> I am wondering whether anybody has managed to get a deacent set up with DECtalk
> software, ALSA, and the dmix plugin via asoundrc, to allow other apps to play
> sound as well as your speech synth? I took an example asoundrc from the ALSA
> wiki, put it in place, and made entries to allow the alsa-oss library to be
> available from login, however it doesn't seem to be satisfactory.
> 
> If anybody is interested in what I did, please let me know and I will send you
> the relevant information.
> 
> Luke
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina@freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Janina Sajka]

Hmmm, Luke, that's the same chip in the Thinkpad T30 that I just turned
in to my previous employer.
I was not able to multichannel on that chip.

Luke Yelavich writes:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:08:20PM EST, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > Luke, you haven't told us what sound card you are using.  The
> > multichannel capabilities depend a lot on the card.  I have had it run
> > just fine with softDec and the sb live.  I don't tend to use asoundrc
> > though I have a one liner script for setting the virtual device
> > volumes for mixing.
> 
> Ah my apologies. It is simply a standard AC97 card in a ThinkPad R50 notebook.
> 
> I am quite sure this card does not have multi-channel capabilities.
> 
> Luke
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina@freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040

Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:34:21AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hmmm, Luke, that's the same chip in the Thinkpad T30 that I just turned
> in to my previous employer.
> I was not able to multichannel on that chip.

I know, hense the search for a dmix sollution.

Luke

Re: ALSA, Software DECtalk and asoundrc.

[Janina Sajka]

Luke Yelavich writes:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:34:21AM EST, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Hmmm, Luke, that's the same chip in the Thinkpad T30 that I just turned
> > in to my previous employer.
> > I was not able to multichannel on that chip.
> 
> I know, hense the search for a dmix sollution.

Aha. Maybe jack is an option as well?
http://jackit.sourceforge.net/


> 
> Luke
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Chair
				Accessibility Workgroup
				Free Standards Group (FSG)

janina@freestandards.org	Phone: +1 202.494.7040