Re: [orca-list] Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher/gnome-speech in Ubuntu.

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

am Di 15. Apr 2008 um 15:35:13 schrieb Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>:
> Ok, in light of all the discussion about pulseaudio and gnome-speech/speech-dispatcher, let me clear up how 
> things have been done in Ubuntu for hardy.
> * The espeak, cepstral, and dectalk gnome-speech drivers have been wrapped in the padsp utility, to use 
> pulseaudio if available. Note that if pulseaudio is not running, these drivers will still work as they 
> would normally, i.e through OSS. Espeak is not using portaudio v19 due to some annoying choppiness issues 
> with speech under heavy load, which is a portaudio issue.

OK, but what happens to Alsa, if I deactivate Pulseaudio? Will things work 
like in Gutsy too?

> * Speech-dispatcher is configured to run system-wide, with espeak as the default driver, using ALSA. I did 
> not change this, because from what I have read in the past from this list, users are used to configuring 
> speech-dispatcher to their needs, which then lead me to believe that all who use speech-dispatcher, know 
> how to configure it, and know what they are doing. So if you wish to use speech-dispatcher with pulseaudio, 
> you will need to edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher, dand set the variable there to no, so that it doesn't 
> run system wide. You will then need to set up the configuration for speech-dispatcher in your home 
> directory per instructions in the speech-dispatcher documentation, and configure things to use pulseaudio, 
> and start speech-dispatcher at login. This can be done in your .bashrc file.
 
SD does not work with Pulseaudio, unless you provide the proper config 
files (haven't tested Halim's file, but I suppose SD is usable under Pulse 
then). I don't think that it's impossible to add those files for the coming 
final release.
Hermann