[coLinux-users] Re: enabling sound support under colinux?

[A. A. A. <alp...@tt...>]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:47:11 -0700, hank smith wrote:

>hello I am trying to use yasr its a screen reader for the blind, I did the following
>apt-get install yasr flite eflite
>yasr is the screen reader and flite and eflite is the tts engine stuff it needs how ever when I run 
>yasr at the command prompt I don't hear any speech.

There's no audio hw support in coLinux yet, you'll need a sound daemon
on windows side that handles streaming audio over network.

Actually, I have been testing latest festival release on
colinux-20040910. I have cygwin with esound package installed on
windows side, using tap adapter, daemon executing as follows (ip
address refers to windows side of tap):

esd -tcp -bind 192.168.0.1 -port 15001 -public

esound is also installed in colinux, and I've added following lines to
siteinit.scm :

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Rate 22050)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Required_Format 'raw)
(Parameter.set 'Audio_Command 
	"esdcat -s 192.168.0.1:15001 -m -r 22050 < $FILE")

Now, I can hear speech synthesized in colinux by festival.

flite does not have scheme interface so this does not directly apply,
but I guess you've got the point.

>if sound support is not supported how easy would it be to put both in colinux, and in astwind? whitch is the colinux with asterisk support.

AstWind does not support any of that hardware, it is stated as a
packet voice installation:
http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=astwind

<quote>
Most VoIP only features are available on the Windows version, although
there is currently no support for any hardware interfaces.
...
Through the coLinux networking subsystem, Asterisk has access to the
network and can participate fully as a unique server.
</quote>


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