Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/11/2014 07:48, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out ways of making it possible to drive Linux from
> Windows speech recognition (NaturallySpeaking).  The goal is a system
> where Windows runs in a virtual machine (Linux host), audio is passed
> through from a USB headset to the Windows environment. And the output of
> the recognition engine is piped through some magic back to the Linux host.
> 
> the hardest part of all of this without question is getting clean
> uninterrupted audio from the USB device all the way through to the
> Windows virtual machine. virtual box, VMware fail mostly in delivering 
> reliable  audio to the virtual machine.
> 
> I expect KVM to not  work right  with regards to getting clean
> audio/real-time USB but I'm asking in case I'm wrong. if it doesn't work
> or can't work yet, what would it take to make it possible for clean
> audio to be passed through to a guest?

I'm adding two people who might know.

Do you have any idea what the "magic to pipe data back to the Linux
host" should look like?  Does a normal serial port (COM1 for Windows,
/dev/ttyS0 for Linux) work?

Paolo