Re: Festival/mpg123?

[Daniel Elenius <danel698@student.liu.se>]

>> Don't know, but an even cooler thing would be if the sound drivers
>> could handle both of them at the same time. I would REALLY like
>> that. It's so anoying when you don't get the sounds from Licq while
>> playing MP3s, and I always play MP3s... And it is doable, of
>> course. We'll just have to bug someone for that... :-)
>
>This is half way possible. Festival can use NAS, which allows multiple
>sounds to be played at once. I don't know of a mp3 player that can use NAS
>though.
>
>I have festival set up here to announce important incoming email. Sometimes
>I will have 3 or 4 voices talking at once on my system, all mixed together.
>:-)

Cool, I haven't heard of that. I still think the device driver should
do this though, completely transparently from user programs.