Re: [orca-list] how does portaudio19 relate to orca?

["krishnakant Mane" <researchbase gmail com>]

thanks for the info.
kindly tell me how I can install portaudio 19.
by the way if this works with alsa, will the choppy stuttering
behaviour of orca get corrected with portaudio 19?
regards,
Krishnakant.
On 15/08/07, Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za> wrote:
> Hi,
> Portaudio is a sound library used by espeak.
> Espeak is one of the voice synthesizers that can be used by orca.
> There are two versions of portaudio around. 18 and 19, or I think it is
> 0.18 and 0.19.
> 0.19 I understand has alsa support where 0.18 does not.  In practice it
> means that it is easyer to send two sound streams to the soundcard when
> using  portaudio 19.  So you can listen to a song while e.g. writing a
> document using espeak as your synthesizer.
> HTH, Willem
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, krishnakant Mane wrote:
>
> > hello,
> > this might be a very simple question but I am really confused so please
> answer.
> > how does portaudio19 better orca?
> > I think portaudio is not some speech backend or some thing.
> > so how does it relate to orca?
> > and if there are benifits then how do I install it on my laptop?
> > do I need to install any thing else apart from portaudio 19 for geting
> > the advantages?
> > regards,
> > Krishnakant.
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