Re: Where is the real developers list?

[Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>]

Hi Kai,

thanks for the extensive answer.

Maybe I am a little impatient, thats true.  Sorry about that.

However, I am not really doing this formyself, but for
many other people who now are relying on.

The problem is to get an old, unmaintained and closed
software application working: IBM's ViaVoice.  This is
the ONLY speech recognition software that works reasonable
for linux.  Other people are working on writing open source
speech recognition software, but that is not a trivial
things and in the mean time many people need this ViaVoice
thing to work.

ViaVoice assume the OSS interface - and I need it work with
ALSA.  That SHOULD not be a problem because ALSA supports
OSS - but in practise: it doesn't work.

I believe that this is a bug in ALSA, or at least in the
portion that support/emulates OSS.

I cannot change ViaVoice because it is closed software.
I cannot write to IBM and request help: they don't support
this anymore.

What is left is to figure out why ALSA fails to emulate
OSS in this particular case.

I wrote a simple test case that reproduces the exact
problem (at least, on my PC, with a Create SB Live! Value).
See a previous mail of me with the Subject
"Bug in OSS simulation (ALSA 0.9.4)"

To my suprise I saw on the webpage of alsa that I'd need
0.9.4 as the version that supports OSS.  Does this mean
that 0.9.5 does NOT support OSS at all anymore ?!?

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>


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