Re: [orca-list] Gnome-Speech Choppiness

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com> writes:

> This may have been talked about before but can't remember for sure.  I'm 
> using gnome-speech with Espeak 1.37 and notice a lot of choppiness 
> especially when disk activity is going on.  I built Espeak with 
> portaudio V19 and use ALSA for sound support; I believe gnome-speech 
> uses OSS so if that is the case, then I'm using the OSS emulation layer 
> for ALSA.  Did someone say at some point that perhaps portaudio V18 
> would be less choppy?  I'll tell you, if you wanna hear this choppiness 
> and distorted speech, set gnome-speech to use espeak and then go burn a 
> CD with Brasero and listen to what happens.
You can try rebuilding Espeak with portaudio v18, but I don't know
what's recommended for Slackware. V18 is recommended for Debian and
V19 is for Suse and Solaris. So what about Slackware?
Hermann

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