Hi. I want to play around with cvoicecontrol for voice recognition. It seems to be really old, but Perlbox was the only other thing I have found so far that seems to be a complete solution, and Perlbox is not very good at recognizing the words, and does not seem to have any configurable options to improve the situation.
Anyway, when I run microphone_config, cvoicecontrol says
Code:
No mixer devices available!
Please purchase a sound card and install it!
However, my microphone system works fine with audacity and gnome-voice-recorder (once I select the correct recording device). I'm thinking that because cvoicecontrol is ten-year-old software, there must be a difference in the way cvoicecontrol detects the mixer or sound device.
The
cvoicecontrol manual mentions a /dev/sndstat device, which my system does not seem to have, although there is a /dev/snd directory full of devices.
I have an ALSA-based sound system (from the 2.6.34 kernel), which uses alsamixer (v.1.0.21). I have a Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) sound card, with a Mic-in port.
Code:
# ls -l /dev/snd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 11 21:30 by-path
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 15 Nov 11 21:30 controlC0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Nov 11 21:30 hwC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Nov 11 21:30 midiC0D0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Nov 11 21:30 midiC0D1
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 14 Nov 12 06:54 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 13 Nov 12 07:06 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 12 Nov 12 06:17 pcmC0D1c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 11 Nov 11 21:30 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 10 Nov 11 21:30 pcmC0D2p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 9 Nov 11 21:32 pcmC0D3p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 8 Nov 11 21:30 pcmC0D4c
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Nov 12 06:17 pcmC0D4p
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Nov 11 21:30 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Nov 11 21:30 timer
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 (root@livecd) (gcc version 4.4.4 (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.2, pie-0.4.5) )
Is there some symbolic link I could create, or other compatibility issue I could deal with, that would allow me to use cvoicecontrol on my modern system?
