Re: [Perlbox-devel] perlbox-voice problems

[Shane M. <sc...@wr...>]

Hey,

Glad it is working (mostly) for you. Festival is using /dev/dsp for
output. I 
am assuming that you DO get voice response when the listener is NOT turned 
on.  I think I may know what is going on if this is the case.

Can you run two sound programs at the same time? Say xmms and noatun
playing 
two different songs? If not, then your sound card does not multiplex,
which 
means that only one program can stream to it at a time. So Festival get 
blocked from the sound card, because festival doesn't dominate the
soundcard, 
but sphinx does because it monitors constantly. This is my understanding 
anyway. 

Now, you might have some duplexing, like two programs can output at the
same 
time, but the input is blocked. Start by recording (like krecord) and then 
open a music file (xmms).  I am not an expert on sound cards, but it could
be 
a kernel module setting on your driver, or maybe the sound card does not 
support multiplexing. You can find this out through google.  

I am interested to hear what you learn. I do not know as much about all of 
this as I wish, but maybe I was of some help.

Good luck,
Shane