Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Mike Gorse <mgorse mgorse dhs org>]

Now that I've looked at it a little, I'm guessing that the bug is with 
portaudio rather than gnome-speech or espeak.  Feisty is using Portaudio 
18, so it makes me wonder if things would work better with v19.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Mike Gorse wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have also had orca stop talking when it and yasr (via eflite) were both
> trying to talk at the same time.
>
> It appears to be a bug in gnome-speech or espeak.  Only one device can
> write to /dev/dsp at a time.  The gnome-speech espeak driver normally
> opens it when it is writing to it and then closes it, but, if it is unable
> to write to it because another process is using it, it sometimes opens the
> device and does not close it.  (Perhaps it doesn't record that it still
> has the device open and later tries to open it but can't because it
> already has it open.)
>
> -- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --