Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

All right!  Glad to hear this.  It was a fun hack to try.

Now, for ALSA vs. ESD vs. whatever.  I don't know.  I'm trying to read
up on them to get a better understanding of things.  Does anyone have an
idea where GNOME is headed with this?  I still see signs of ESD in
various places.

Will

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:41 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just tried something similar to what Will suggested with the
> gnome-speech bonobo activation file. The difference is that instead of
> using esddsp, I used aoss, so the string in the quote marks after the
> location= is 
> "/usr/bin/aoss /usr/bin/espeak-synthesis-driver"
> and now I am happily using espeak with alsa with the gnome-speech
> driver.
>
> As another note, I tried to use another app through aoss, and the two
> worked together with no problem, speech and sound. That's me happy. Has
> anyone else tried this, and how does it work for you?
>
> I would guess as this works, esddsp should work as well, but I decided
> against it as it is another server layer which may stop running
> (potentially).
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
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