Getting started

[Daniel Dalton]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Mike Reiser wrote:
>> lay two sounds at the same time without some hacking but this should get
>
> Oh. Is this a gnome or ubuntu issue? Your saying ubuntu uses os?
> And in a console can you run mplayer and have espeak talking for example?
> I can on my debian box. Haven't tested in gnome but will report back when I 
> do.

This is what I can do:
-Play some music in gnome
-Listen to orca at the same time
-Switch to console one leaving gnome music playing and listen to speakup
-Start music with mplayer and here both songs playing.
-With all this music I can switch back to x and listen to orca
-I can also use speakup in a console with all this music playing too.

It is a bit hard to see if both screenreaders can work at once. But it 
wouldn't suprise me if they didn't.

Things I can't do:
-When using an os media player like mpg123 I can't use speakup
-Can't make espeak say something like with the command "espeak "hello 
world"" while speakup is talking...
Same for flite.

I guess alsa is fine and the only problems are with os.

BTW Is it possible to get espeak to use alsa with speechd-up? I think 
someone answered this for me a while ago I will search through my 
messages.


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