From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from haydn.is.nottingham.ac.uk ([128.243.40.92]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1F4p4R-0000Zq-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:45:03 -0500 Received: from zcd-107-215.sns.nottingham.ac.uk ([10.3.107.215] helo=mike) by haydn.is.nottingham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 1F4p4I-00031P-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:44:54 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ From: mikster4@msn.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Speech-dispatcher taking up my sound card Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:44:51 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact staff-it-helpline@nottingham.ac.uk for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: mikster4@msn.com X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:45:03 -0000 Hello, I am using speech-dispatcher 0.6 for software output, with festival using ALSA. When ever I try and use any software that is using OSS for sound, it always complains that the sound card is busy. If I set speech-dispatcher to use OSS it stops anything else from using the sound card. This is so even when no speech is being produced (e.g. when I have silenced speakup). I don't remember this was so in speech-dispatcher 0.5, is there a setting I have not noticed in 0.6, or will my answer be to go back to 0.5? From Michael Whapples