speech dispatcher not connecting to alsa

[Rob Hill]

Hello Halim and list,

Thanks for your reply.  The .asoundrc file is necessary, because
without it the viavoice synth overlaps itself when speaking.

I tried removing it and reinstalling speech-dispatcher.  The result
was the same as when the .asoundrc file is present.  Espeak.log below:

 Wed Jan 14 17:03:24 2009 [476797] ALSA: Opening ALSA sound output
 Wed Jan 14 17:03:24 2009 [476855] ALSA: Opening ALSA device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pcm.dmixer
 Wed Jan 14 17:03:24 2009 [478415] ALSA ERROR: Cannot open audio device 
pcm.dmixer (No such file or directory)
 Wed Jan 14 17:03:24 2009 [478449] ALSA ERROR: Cannot initialize Alsa device 
'pcm.dmixer': Can't open.

Regards,

Rob


Halim Sahin writes:
 > Hi,
 > The problem is your custom asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc file.
 > Look at the line
 > ALSA lib pcm.c:2196:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pcm.dmixer
 > 
 > Why do you want to use a customized asound.conf???
 > In most cases alsa enables dmix plugin which does the softmixing in alsa.
 > So please remove ~/.asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf and
 > try again.
 > Post the new log lines in this case.
 > 
 > HTH.
 > halim
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >