[gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

2010-05-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have set up sound to a jabra halo bluetooth headset and it works using mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth soundfile. This works fine for apps like mplayer which can specify the right output device. However, I want to use espeak (in a console) to play back text files - its a good method to check

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

2010-05-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:20 AM, W.Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: [...] It looks like bluez is continually changing so most of the guides Ive found dont apply - I am using bluez-4.39.  alsamixer etc dont list the bluetooth device and I cant see it in /proc/asound, but its obviously there

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth headset and espeak

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
espeak is not a pulse audio application but uses portaudio - something quite different. I dont have pulseaudio installed and seeing all the bad things people say about it on other distributions I am leary about installing it on an otherwise working system without good cause. Note that as