Re: [orca-list] easiest way to update drivers

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hello,
On Mo, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:33:59 -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> The necessary sophistication is present on Linux via alsa. The problem
> is that our various speech engines continue to talk oss, and that's
> going to continue to be a problem until they stop doing that.
> 
The main problem of the speechsolutions are that they can work 
with alsa over the oss-emulation stuff without changing everything.


> PS: Once reason sometimes given for not changing is that oss provides
> support across OS. In other words, the oss based engines will work on
> Solaris and Aix, as well as Linux. To my mind this is not an acceptable
> response, because the end user is still denied proper functionality.
> 
Do other OS's don't have the problem with 
softmixing stuff? 
> 
> Janina
> 
Halim