Re: [orca-list] orca crashes

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

I Bram:

> > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/Speech
> >
> > Please try them out and let me know how they work.
> >   
> Works, but in the stable version of Portaudio 19, Alsa support doesn't 
> work. I tried the last portaudio19-development svn build. Alsa is 
> working fine here, but same crashes as with the ubuntu portaudio 
> package. So, I think it's a bug in either eSpeak or Portaudio, any thaughts?

Bummer.  Can you remind me what the stack traces of the crashes look
like?

> It would be really nice to have eSpeak working with alsa, because I'm 
> running this on a laptop with a crappy intel/realtek hd-audio soundcard 
> which doesn't support hardware mixing.

You might try the 'aoss' hack described under the "How do I get Orca to
speak alongside other alsa applications?" question in the Orca FAQ:

  http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

It's a hack, and I'm not sure it provides optimal behavior with respect
to latency and interrupting speech quickly, but your mileage may vary.

Will