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

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 14:31 -0500, 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.  :-(
At the risk of starting of the debate of linux audio systems, I feel
that this variety of audio solutions is part of the problem. By having
this variety it means that developers have a choice of differnt systems
to make their application work with rather than an obvious choice, so
these systems need to cope with applications using other systems. I do
have my own view how this single choice might go, but I don't want that
debate, I know that plenty will have other views to mine.

Michael Whapples
> Will
>
> On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Stephen Clower wrote:
>
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hmmm....I wonder if this might have something to do with the audio 
> > > system in use. The Ubuntu folks have been looking at Pulse Audio, but 
> > > I think that may end up resulting in some very poor audio 
> > > performance. Orca, for example, seems to be pretty responsive on my 
> > > OpenSolaris box.
> >
> >
> > Will,
> > I'm certain this is part of the equation. If I recompile gnome-speech, 
> > I notice that audio seems to go through oss instead of pulse. Latency 
> > is slightly better without that overhead, but overall it's not as 
> > nimble as my screen reader in Windows.
> >
> > What audio system are you using in Solaris? If you and other orca 
> > users aren't noticing this sluggishness, then perhaps we Ubuntu users 
> > should try to configure our systems to match your setups.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steve
> >
> >
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