Re: [orca-list] Linux Nubie: Questions of Basic Linux Concepts

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

> The issue of the moment is gnome-speech, which I believe is still
> talking OSS in order to also support non Linux architectures like
> Solaris and Aix, which do not have ALSA.

The issue is actually the speech engine itself.  gnome-speech itself 
does virtually nothing with respect to audio -- it merely is a wrapper 
on top of the underlying speech engine.  As such, it is the speech 
engine provider that needs to provide better support for audio device 
contention/sharing.

Will