Praat can not play sound in Lucid
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praat (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: praat
when i want to play sound in praat, it shows up a msg box saying "can not open audio device. consult /usr/doc/
i have added myself into the 'audio' group.
i have tried the instructions from the praat official site as follows, but it does not work:
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1. Sound not working?
Praat uses the OSS sound system, which has superior audio quality for the types of sounds you need to play. A few Linux distributions nowadays have their OSS support switched off in favour of the ALSA sound system. If that's the case, try to run Praat with
aoss praat
It is also possible that the device used by OSS (namely /dev/dsp) is hijacked by the "sound server" PulseAudio. If that's the case, either kill PulseAudio or try to run Praat with
padsp praat
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Here is some info about my computer:
$ uname -a
Linux hcsi46 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:28:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
praat version: 5.1.25-1
I find a record from Debian bug archive:
http://<email address hidden> /msg215269. html
debian-bugs-closed
Bug#514652: marked as done (praat: Sound output does not work out of the box, needs OSS)
but praat in Lucid has already depends on 'oss-compat'.
so i think the 'aoss' is not necessary.