Hi Kai, thanks for the extensive answer.
Maybe I am a little impatient, thats true. Sorry about that. However, I am not really doing this formyself, but for many other people who now are relying on. The problem is to get an old, unmaintained and closed software application working: IBM's ViaVoice. This is the ONLY speech recognition software that works reasonable for linux. Other people are working on writing open source speech recognition software, but that is not a trivial things and in the mean time many people need this ViaVoice thing to work. ViaVoice assume the OSS interface - and I need it work with ALSA. That SHOULD not be a problem because ALSA supports OSS - but in practise: it doesn't work. I believe that this is a bug in ALSA, or at least in the portion that support/emulates OSS. I cannot change ViaVoice because it is closed software. I cannot write to IBM and request help: they don't support this anymore. What is left is to figure out why ALSA fails to emulate OSS in this particular case. I wrote a simple test case that reproduces the exact problem (at least, on my PC, with a Create SB Live! Value). See a previous mail of me with the Subject "Bug in OSS simulation (ALSA 0.9.4)" To my suprise I saw on the webpage of alsa that I'd need 0.9.4 as the version that supports OSS. Does this mean that 0.9.5 does NOT support OSS at all anymore ?!? -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
