RE: [TCLUG:7361] Voice software

["Joel A. Koepp" <jkoepp@yahoo.com>]

--- Unni Nambiar <unambiar@Legato.COM> wrote:
> I tried this over the weekend and it didn't work.  The README says that
> recording is done at 16KHz and 16 bit data which should suit most sound
> cards.  Unfortunately my grandmotherboard has an 8-bit built-in sound card
> (the packard bell PB640 - sheesh !).  Could that be the problem ?  dd and
> cat using /dev/dsp works fine.

I thought I read somewhere (kvoicecontrol help?) that some trickery is required
with an 8-bit soundcard. I don't have it in front of me and I (moan) don't have
ssh so there we are. 

> The documentation also talks about calibrating mic in silence level using a
> mixer s/w until "... the value is stable at zero."  What does this mean ?
> Should the mixer's mic level be set to zero or should the level displayed by
> kvoicecrontrol be zero ?  The level i'm getting is 99 and it just doesn't
> change from there.  As a result the "sample utterance" detection doesn't
> work.  Even the LED style display in the panel shows nothing.

99 definitely doesn't sound right. Mine calibrated silence at 2 or 3. I slid
the mic level in the mixer up to just short of where it started buzzing loudly.
Not to be insulting, but is it plugged into the right jack? The back of my
machine is in a corner so I have a hard time reaching back there and getting
things where they are supposed to go sometimes. :)

Perhaps I'll update my experience with it later when I can sit down and use it
some more. 

Cheers,
Joel


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