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From: sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au (Steve Hocking)
Subject: Re: Network Audio - is this possible?
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alain@linguist.jussieu.fr (Alain de Cheveigne') writes:

>In article <1994Feb3.110321.43848@ucl.ac.uk>, uclyams@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andrew
>Simpson) wrote:
>> Is it possible to use the audio device of one machine from another
>> machine on the same network?  I'm interested in playing out
>> audio files stored on a Sun SPARC station on a variety of 
>> different platforms including other SPARC stations, a 486 machine
>> running Linux, and a DOS/Windows platform.   Is it possible to
>> do this within the context of X-Windows - i.e. to somehow use the
>> communication channel between Client and Server to carry the 
>> audio signal?

	Try netaudio, by NCD. It can be found in /contrib/netaudio on
ftp.x.org, and may also include my port of the Naval speech synth code to
it's API. It works quite well - I've just portted the server to the
soundblaster card under SVR3 & SVR4 unix on PCs.
--

	Stephen
