Re: [orca-list] sound on feisty

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Repeating myself somewhat--I don't believe Gnome is the place to solve
this. It would be as if Gnome used one set of video drivers, while KDE
used a different set,  etc. Or perhaps Gnome had one printer driver set,
while KDE another, and the console yet another. 

Janina

Willie Walker writes:
> 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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> > Orca-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca
>
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