Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA

2006-12-21 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> 2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. jrf> I tell them, but some of them won't listen :-) Has a list of jrf> these applications been considered? Fo

Re: Festival and OSS/ALSA (was: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?)

2006-12-21 Thread juan rafael fernández
2006/12/21, Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. I tell them, but some of them won't listen :-) Has a list of these applications been considered? For instance in the field I work, education, audacity is considered "the audio editor". Could au

Festival and OSS/ALSA (was: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?)

2006-12-21 Thread Milan Zamazal
Unfortunately, good and cheap sound cards are not commonly available today. So most Linux users have to base their sound output on ALSA dmix. Here is how to do it on a Debian GNU/Linux system: - Tell all applications to use ALSA instead of OSS. - If it is not possible (as with Festival that can

Re: [Kenny Hitt] Re: Is Debian appropriate for accessibility?

2006-12-21 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "jrf" == juan rafael fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jrf> The problem is, are there other intelligible free non-English jrf> voices available at the moment? If not, them end-users need the jrf> somehow free mbrola voices No, end users need to initiate development of free v