Re: [orca-list] Again: Orca and internet radio

[Frank Carmickle <frank carmickle com>]

On Fri, Mar 23, hermann wrote:
> Hi,
> a few weeks ago I reported a problem with Orca and Rhythmbox when
> listening to internet radio:
> As long as Orca is active I cannot hear anything when starting to play a
> station. Turning Orca off and getting back to RB, the stream starts.
> Some list members suspected a hardware problem concerning my sound
> device. However I doubt whether this is the reason why I can't listen to
> radio:

Hi Hermann

Both gnome-speech and speech dispatcher use oss.  This causes us some trouble when trying to use multiple audio sources.  I haven't tracked down which exact use cases yet.  Gnome-speech is written this way so that it will work on other u*ix systems like solaris.  Hopefully at some point we will get a speech system for orca and lsr that uses alsa.  

--Frank