Re: [orca-list] Orca, Gnome Speech extreme latency, stalling

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hey Steve:

We use OSS on Solaris.  NOTE that you are entering a very politically 
charged space.  Linux audio is traditionally very broken and everyone 
and their brother has an idea for how to fix it.  Unfortunately, there 
are more solutions than problems, but it's a close race since each 
solution introduces its own set of problems.  :-(

Will

On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Stephen Clower wrote:

> Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hmmm....I wonder if this might have something to do with the audio 
> > system in use. The Ubuntu folks have been looking at Pulse Audio, but 
> > I think that may end up resulting in some very poor audio 
> > performance. Orca, for example, seems to be pretty responsive on my 
> > OpenSolaris box.
>
>
> Will,
> I'm certain this is part of the equation. If I recompile gnome-speech, 
> I notice that audio seems to go through oss instead of pulse. Latency 
> is slightly better without that overhead, but overall it's not as 
> nimble as my screen reader in Windows.
>
> What audio system are you using in Solaris? If you and other orca 
> users aren't noticing this sluggishness, then perhaps we Ubuntu users 
> should try to configure our systems to match your setups.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
>
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