Hi Folks, In an attempt to reduce wires I picked up a supported bluetooth telephony (sco not a2dp)headset. I am wondering if we have a local alsa guru as I am having a few problems and would appreciate being able to talk with someone about it.
I am able to use the bluetooth headset. I am able to redirect /dev/dsp to the headset. I am able to do all my sound except text to speech in alsa and as such have it use the plughw:Headset alsa device which does a nice job of converting the sound for the headset so it does not sound choppy. The big problem is this: I rely on text to speech. I am not able to get either of the text to speech packages I use to use the plughw:Headset device. They send to /dev/dsp. I have tried various things including aoss, renaming, moving /dev/dsp, asoundconf and such, but while I am able to get speech sent to /dev/dsp to come out the bluetooth headset, it is clearly going right to the hw:Headset and not passing through the rate conversions that plughw:Headset offers so it sounds hidious. This is a show stopper, I have to have clear speech. If anyone would be willing to talk (voice) with me about this issue I will do my best to call you at your convenience or be available for you to call me. I can do landline, ekiga or skype. On a more minor side, does anyone know the asoundrc lines for buffer time and period time? I am seeing how to set it on a per program basis, but would like the defaults set differently than they are. So, details: Xubuntu feisty on an Intel "core single" in a sony UX-280P all sound packages installed from the distribution. All bluetooth packages are the ones with the distro. (You can see it at http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/latest.html ) Speech is from either ttsynth (the current comercial version IBM outloud aka viavoice ) or fonix dectalk (software dectalk). Yes, I would gladly use open source text to speech but it is just not as good yet for clear, highspeed, dependable speech. It is really too bad. But I am thankfull that reasonably priced (under $50) text to speech is available. The headset is a jabra BT500. On the much less critical side, I am looking for a non gui way to get the pin into this thing so I can automate paring. I am sure that info is out there but I have not looked for it as have spent my time trying to get speech to work better. If someone happens to know the answer to that please kick me a url or pointer. Thanks, -Greg -- Greg Priest-Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
