EsoundD -- I need information

[Dan Tihelka <dtihelka kky zcu cz>]

Hallo,

we work on "screen reader" for linux for purblind  people who want to 
use linux and our results seem to be promising. We want to try it 
together with Gnome to see if we are on the right way. Naturally, we 
need an audio output and because Gnome uses Esound, we ideally should 
use it as well.

But the problem is, that due to screen reader design and its function 
requirements, we need to know when an audio stream plaing finished and 
to be able to stop it before it will finish (if there is such demand 
from our daemon).

I can not find any documentation of Esound and so i am not able to find, 
if Esound supports these requirements somehow. Or do we have another 
way, how to play sounds from our screen reader and from Gnome 
simultenaously? (we do not want deprive purblind Gnome users of Gnome 
sounds).
I think, that to use Esound is the most straightforward way how to join 
screen reader and Gnome.

Thank you very much,

Dan Tihelka

P.S. Could you send the answer to my address <dtihelka kky zcu cz> as 
well, because i am not subscribed into conference. Thanks.