From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alvin H. White" Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:25:40 +0000 Subject: Re: Playing Multiple Audio streams - Discrete Stereo Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On 15 Mar 2000 12:36:55 -0800, you wrote: >Jeff McBride writes: > >> Are there any good ways to play several audio sources simultaneously? If >> an application wants to be playing say, several wave files overtop of each >> other, does it have to mix them itself and then play one stream. Or are >> there other drives, or possibly a daemon of some kind to do it? > >rplay[1], nas[2], and ESounD[3] can all do this very well. > >> And how about multiple applications that are unaware of each other playing >> at the same time? > >rplay and ESoundD both have ways of tricking an application into playing >audio via sound servers. i know that both rplay and esd are under >development, however, i'm not sure about nas. > >-l > >[1] http://rplay.doit.org >[2] ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/audio/nas/ >[3] http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html I have been running text files through a translator, then running the output through a text to speech engine. I would like to run one language to one ear and the other language to the other ear without overlap. Then I need a brake function to slow down the language that is going faster. Can any of these do that well? Thx, G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.