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

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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Steve, I just did a recent full install of Debian Lenny Testing; I
chose gnome-speech because its punctuation and capitalization works
verry well with espeak.  So I use gnome-speech plus espeak.  I believe
gnome-speech uses OSS - wish it were ALSA.  In any case, I find the
general performance to be pretty good.  I thought someone said there
was a way to get gnome-speech to use ALSA but I forget how.  It might
have more to do with espeak.  I might have to recompile espeak
manually to change its choice of speech systems.  From what I can
tell, there isn't any way to externally tell espeak to use ALSA in
Debian.

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:58:08PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>
> The sound support on OpenSolaris seems to do pretty well and it also 
> provides audio mixing.  There's an old-ish page here on the OSS stuff:  
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/.
>
> Will
>
> Stephen Clower wrote:
>> Willie Walker wrote:
>>> 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,
>> Political arguments aside, have you found the oss implementation to be  
>> the least latent audio system? I assume that it still can only handle  
>> one audio stream at a time and cannot deal with multichannel sound?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Steve
>>
>>
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