can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this is a rather different use case than what you've been thinking of for KVM. It could mean significant improvement of the quality of life of disabled programs like myself. It's difficult to convey what it's like to try to use computers with speech recognition for something other than writing

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 8:50 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: I'm adding two people who might know. Do you have any idea what the "magic to pipe data back to the Linux host" should look like? Does a normal serial port (COM1 for Windows, /dev/ttyS0 for Linux) work? The fine magic comes in three forms. Keystr

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 8:53 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: kvm's usb pass-through should be able to handle this without any issues (other then some latency), it uses special buffering for isochronous usb packets, which should take care of usb audio working. I've never tested audio recording, but audio playbac

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 9:57 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: That's great to know. I will spin up a version of Windows 7 and give it a try given that I'm not looking at it, I can strip it down to the barest user interface elements and improve performance significantly. I tried it and

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/20/2014 4:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 20/11/2014 17:28, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm accustomed to lesser performance on virtual machines. That's the hazard of a running on old and slow laptop (dell e6400 (2.2ghz core duo, 8gb ram)[1]) but even virtual box is not this slow

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/21/2014 09:06 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 20/11/2014 23:22, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'll be able to run some tests in about 2 to 3 hours after I finish this document. Let me know what I should look at? on a side note, a pointer to an automated install process would be wond

next puzzle: Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/21/2014 11:52 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: 4384 libvirt+ 20 0 2825112 2.058g 9960 R 109.1 26.6 12:47.73 qemu-system-x86 next report after updates install next puzzle. updates are not working using bridged to eth0 using virt io driver (checked install on windows) browser works

Re: next puzzle: Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
a little more info On 11/21/2014 01:24 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: next puzzle. updates are not working using bridged to eth0 using virt io driver (checked install on windows) browser works in vm (quite well in fact) watching output of tcpdump and there is no apparent traffic for updates

usb audio device troubles

2014-12-02 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I got win7 installed, virtio devices working and took forever to trickle in updates because of a w7 bug update manager bug that take up all cpu resources. now I got DNS 13 installed but I'm getting no audio. I pass throught the usb audio device (logitech h800 USB 046d:0a29) and it is seen as

Re: usb audio device troubles

2014-12-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 12/3/2014 3:21 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi all, On 12/02/2014 01:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 02/12/2014 13:16, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I got win7 installed, virtio devices working and took forever to trickle in updates because of a w7 bug update manager bug that take up all cpu

Re: usb audio device troubles

2014-12-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 12/3/2014 3:52 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Eric are you using usb-host redirection, or Spice's usb network redir ? Host redirection I assume. It was from the collection of devices UI and I added the device to pass through from the list of host USB devices. Ok, then Gerd is probably the bes

Re: usb audio device troubles

2014-12-03 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 12/3/2014 3:52 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: Eric are you using usb-host redirection, or Spice's usb network redir ? This little bit of time this morning learning about spice and the network redirection. It worked for about half an hour and then failed in the same way the host redirection fai

just an observation about USB

2015-10-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
update from the NaturallySpeaking in a VM project. don't remember what I told you before but, yes I can now send keystroke events generated by speech recognition in the Windows guest into the Linux input queue. I can also extract information from the Linux side, and have it modify the gramm

Re: just an observation about USB

2015-10-14 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/14/2015 04:04 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 14/10/2015 21:39, Eric S. Johansson wrote: update from the NaturallySpeaking in a VM project. don't remember what I told you before but, yes I can now send keystroke events generated by speech recognition in the Windows guest int

Re: just an observation about USB

2015-10-16 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 10/16/2015 07:55 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: QEMU can emulate PCI soundcards, including the Intel HD Audio codec cards (-device intel-hda or -soundhw hda might do the trick). Low latency and power consumption are usually at odds with each other. That's because real-time audio requires small

revisiting speech recognition in a Windows guest on KVM

2015-02-02 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Apologies for taking so long to revisit this topic but well, new hardware, new software, new microphone and, you know, life… Summary: I have unable to forward my USB microphone connection to a Windows guest and I could use a little bit of assistance pointing me in the right direction. Long s