Quoting Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've got the laptop (Dell Inspiron 5000/Pentium III/650/512 MB RAM
> currently running Windows 2000 boo-hiss)
> I've got the USB pod (Telex H-531 and Andrea's USB pod)
I have Telex M-560 microphone here (based on Philips UDA1335).
> I've got the speech recognition software (IBM ViaVoice)
> I've also got seven years experience with speech recognition usage as well
> as about seven years worth of Linux experience (from a server perspective).
>
> What I don't have is enough of a clue about how the Linux sound system
> works and how the USB audio drivers interact with the input channel.
a) load module "audio.o"
b) plug the microphone in
c) point your audio software to /dev/audio.
That's it. In case of problems you always can test the thing by
$ od -t x2 < /dev/audio
which should print 16-bit numbers that change as you speak. IIRC,
they are signed short integers.
If you already have sound card(s) in the notebook then USB
microphone (or speaker) will be /dev/audio1 etc. You have
the complete headset
http://www.computeraudio.telex.com/products/h531.html
so I would expect that you can read from /dev/audioN and
write into it as well.
When you plug the microphone in a message will be printed by
the driver into /var/log/messages saying what sampling rates
the device supports, and probably couple of lines about what
mixers are constructed (if any) for what terminals.
Thanks,
Dmitri
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