Re: [orca-list] Espeak, Esound and Speech-dispatcher

[Garrett Klein <garrettklein comcast net>]

Hermann,

The way I've done it is to use the gnome espeak driver and then I
installed the gstreamer plugins for alsa. This lets me hear sounds
wherever they are needed. I'm not sure how Ubuntu/Debian do it, but all
I had to do on this system was
emerge gst-plugins-alsa
and everything worked once I changed my sound device to alsa in sound
preferences.

Hth,
Garrett

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:57:13PM +0200, Jan Buchal wrote:
> Hi Herman,
>
>
> > > > > > "H" == Hermann  <steppenwolf2 onlinehome de> writes:
>
>     H> Hi, when I use the 3 mentioned programs together, I face
>     H> deactivating of sound by Esound, whenever a sound event is
>     H> played, for example a mail arrives. This happens when I've
>     H> started the GUI, but not in text mode only, because Esound isn't
>     H> used there. To make a long story short, it seems that Espeak
>     H> causes the problem, because it outputs the sound via play or
>     H> aplay. I came to that conclusion because extended testing showed,
>     H> that when I use SD with another synth - Festival or Flite - this
>     H> doesn't happen. Both synts don't use external programs to produce
>     H> speech output. It does not happen when I use Espeak with
>     H> Gnome-speech, but the speech quality is not that excellent, as
>     H> with SD: The speech is stuttering, and it is turned off as soon
>     H> as I play an audio file, due to the fact that Gnome-speech uses
>     H> OSS. The only solution I found is deactivating softmixing and
>     H> that means deactivating Esound; Consequence: I have no system
>     H> sounds including e-mail notification. I experience this since the
>     H> upgrade to Feisty. What can I do to find a better solution? Are
>     H> there plans to develop a driver for SD and Espeak, so that no
>     H> player is needed? Hermann
>
>
> Yes I can comfir it. I see it as gnome audio problem and audio system
> generaly. The solution is not so easy. Alsa is prefered audio system in
> kernel but what I know still not exist some useful audio server which
> response our needs. Maybe port audio libraries can help but that means
> gnome wil have some internal sound server which will use it.
>
> We must think about and search some solution.
>
> Best
>
>
> -- 
>
> Jan Buchal
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