Re: [orca-list] Punctuation, capital letters, exchange of characters and strings, generally error in the design of Orca

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

Hi,
On Mo, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:24:50 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:52:35PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
>  
> > I agree that pulseaudio doesn't seem to be the way forward. I have heard
> > so much of it here on this list that I thought may be I should try it
> > and solve the problems I have for those few apps which don't work with
> > alsa or the alsa-oss compatibility system. All my effort lead to me
> > concluding that all pulseaudio does is insert another layer of
> > complexity which I need to work out how to set up correctly so that all
> > apps can produce sound.
>
> There is a list of features here:
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#Features
>
> Note that the maintainers of several Linux distributions, Ubuntu and Fedora to
> begin with, disagree with the assertion that PulseAudio is not the way
> forward. In fact, they think it is so much the way forward that it will be
> used by default to control audio output.

If you don't need fast response to your audio output like with
screenreaders etc, pulseaudio can be very usefull for user applications.

They are pushing pulseaudio and don't remember that we had several
soundservers in the past like esd, arts etc.
Sure pulse is small, runs on small devices and can stream sound over a
network.
.............
Perhaps somebody else has tried pulseaudio with gnomespeech and can write something about
it????

Regards
Halim