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

[Jan Buchal <buchal brailcom org>]

> > > > > "LY" == Luke Yelavich <themuso themuso com> writes:

    LY> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:09:38PM EDT, Michael Whapples wrote:
    >> 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.

    LY> The one problem with speech-dispatcher, is that you have to set
    LY> the sound card output for the synth in question at the system
    LY> level. it is currently not possible to do this per user, amking
    LY> this option unusable in multi-user setups.

    LY> If this was addressed, I would certainly consider
    LY> speech-dispatcher for Ubuntu.
It is not correct. Please read speech dispatcher documentation. Speech
dispatcher can runs under any user who can set any its option.

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