Re: [orca-list] Alsa-OSS Politics?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

And I am thinking, I don't know why distros now don't use
speech-dispatcher by default rather than gnome-speech, as that solves
the alsa and oss issues by handling the audio itself and so can use
either alsa or oss (as the user prefers) so long as the synth allows the
controlling app to get the audio. Now that speech-dispatcher has the
espeak specific module (rather than the generic one) and orca has the
speech-dispatcher backend I would not dream of going back to
gnome-speech.

From
Michael Whapples
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 09:47 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> I don't believe these are political issues.  Instead, they are 
> historical issues -- who created what with which libraries, who still 
> maintains their code, what's changed, etc.  As a result, it's kind of 
> like a patchwork quilt.
>
> Will
>
> Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
> > I have seen in a couple of places, most notably on the Orca FAQ, that 
> > there are political issues preventing Orca from using the Alsa-OSS for 
> > speech output by default.  This allows Orca to speak while other audio 
> > is playing.  Curiosity is killing me...what on Earth are these political 
> > issues?  It seems ridiculous that any sort of political issue can be so 
> > important as to cause such irritation, particularly for non-techie blind 
> > computer users wanting to make the transition.  I just got through 
> > helping my girlfriend get ESpeak routed through Alsa-OSS, and I don't 
> > understand why this can't be the default.  What are these mysterious 
> > political issues?
> >
> > Josh de Lioncourt
> > overlord lioncourt com <mailto:overlord lioncourt com>
> >
> > ...my other mail provider is an owl...
> >
> >
> >
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