[ubuntu-uk] sound and software speech

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Mike

You may well need to have something like Alsa (not sure on spelling)
installed.

My understanding is that natively Ubuntu is a single sound source system
unless the apps in use use Alsa or a similar library to enable software
mixing of soundstream unless your card supports this in hardware which I
believe is quite unusual.

There was a fix posted a little while ago on the Orca list to make it Alsa
compliant but having not tried that myself I can't say whether it's a good
un or not.

E

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of michaelweaver
Sent: 26 June 2007 09:14
To: ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] sound and software speech


I have a soundcard in my PC which I know works with both sound and
speech under Windows so I can play a DVD while navigating it with my
screenreader as speech is produced through the soundcard.
How do I get multichannel sound using the same card in Ubuntu because at
some point I am hoping to go totally over to Linux when screenreader
access is better.
I am wondering if multichannel sound is only supported in Windows with
my soundcard.


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