Re: [orca-list] Orca, Gnome Speech extreme latency, stalling

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

Just to clarify one thing:  gnome-speech itself doesn't specify what
audio system is used.  Instead, gnome-speech merely provides wrappers on
top of speech engines and lets the speech engine make the choice what to
use.

Hope this helps,

Will

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:54 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> Steve, I just did a recent full install of Debian Lenny Testing; I
> chose gnome-speech because its punctuation and capitalization works
> verry well with espeak.  So I use gnome-speech plus espeak.  I believe
> gnome-speech uses OSS - wish it were ALSA.  In any case, I find the
> general performance to be pretty good.  I thought someone said there
> was a way to get gnome-speech to use ALSA but I forget how.  It might
> have more to do with espeak.  I might have to recompile espeak
> manually to change its choice of speech systems.  From what I can
> tell, there isn't any way to externally tell espeak to use ALSA in
> Debian.
>
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:58:08PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Steve:
> >
> > The sound support on OpenSolaris seems to do pretty well and it also 
> > provides audio mixing.  There's an old-ish page here on the OSS stuff:  
> > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Stephen Clower wrote:
> > > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > Hey Steve:
> > > >
> > > > We use OSS on Solaris.  NOTE that you are entering a very politically 
> > > > charged space.  Linux audio is traditionally very broken and everyone 
> > > > and their brother has an idea for how to fix it.  Unfortunately, 
> > > > there are more solutions than problems, but it's a close race since 
> > > > each solution introduces its own set of problems.  :-(
> > >
> > >
> > > Will,
> > > Political arguments aside, have you found the oss implementation to be  
> > > the least latent audio system? I assume that it still can only handle  
> > > one audio stream at a time and cannot deal with multichannel sound?
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > >
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