Re: [orca-list] The audio problem again, more suggestions for solutions to it

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi Michael,
FULLACK. I wrote this LD_PRELOAD stuff before but my idea was to use it 
in a wrapper skript to the gnome-speech-driver.
Generaly the speechd is a better solution to this audioproblem.
Unfortunately the ibmtts module has some bugs but espeak is usable with 
speechd-0.6.2.

I don't know if the LD_PRELOAD stuff can produce any errors if set 
global in one configfile.
What about to do this in ~/.xsession???
Best regards
Halim






On Di, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:32:31 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I know that audio has been a problem, and still is (as no proper
> solution is yet really available), but here are a few things I
> noticed/found out.
>
> To allow gnome to use ESD and system sounds, but also for speech to work
> as well, this can be done by getting esd to use the alsa output (on
> debian you will need to install libesd-alsa0) and use speech through
> alsa (see further comments if you don't know how to).
>
> To get oss apps to use alsa, you can do this with the alsa oss
> compatibility layer, you need a package (normally named) alsa-oss, and
> then you can launch any app which uses oss through alsa withe the aoss
> command (eg. aoss realplay). This requires that you know which app is
> actually sending the audio to the sound card, eg. running "aoss orca"
> doesn't work (when using gnome speech. Another way to get the same
> results as the aoss command is to set the environment variable LD_PRLOAD
> with the value /usr/lib/libaoss.so (assuming libaoss.so is in /usr/lib
> but it may be in /usr/local/lib or different to that you probably know
> as you probably told it where to be installed. I am just trying to work
> out the best place to set this, any ideas?
>
> Hopefully that above information should solve most of the sound issues
> being encoutered, and probably will get all gnome-speech synths using
> alsa, but I probably would still suggest considering speech-dispatcher
> (it seems to work fairly well through the orca speech-dispatcher
> backend, and would suggest that to be the way to use orca and
> speech-dispatcher (rather than the gnome-speech speech-dispatcher
> backend).
>
> From
> Michael Whapples
>
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Halim Sahin
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