Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

["Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>]

Oh, OK, so would putting in one of those let me not have to lose speech 
every time the system wants to play sound? Are there better engines to use 
with gnome-speech if one intended to listen to some streams or something?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>
To: "Brent Harding" <bharding doorpi net>
Cc: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty


> Chaintech makes a PCI card which Newegg sells for around $30 USD which
> mixes up to 8 channels of audio. The Echo Audio Indigo PCMCIA cards
> also mix up to 8 channels but are closer to $200 in cost. Both are well
> supported by ALSA drivers and will do the job in a desktop or a laptop,
> respectively. You may need to disable your builtin audio, or reassign it
> to  secondary status via ALSA's index in your modules configuration.
>
> Janina
>
> Brent Harding writes:
> > Are there cards that can actually handle the multiple sources coming in 
> > out
> > there that don't depend on odd Windows drivers to do it? I don't know 
> > that
> > we can set a separate device to be used for speech.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
> > To: "Janina Sajka" <janina rednote net>
> > Cc: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty
> >
> >
> > > Hi Janina:
> > >
> > >> working to gett oss out of our hair. We desparately need that oss
> > >> dependency out of our lives, as I've previously ranted on this list 
> > >> and
> > >> in many other venues.
> > >
> > > I think the most effective ranting is done to people who can actually
> > > change the situation.  Orca and gnome-speech are really just consumers
> > > in this space, and I'm not sure of change that can be made in either to
> > > remedy the device contention problem.
> > >
> > > Having said that, I'm sending out some feelers to people who might be
> > > able to clarify things.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > >
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