Re: [orca-list] linux sound issues Re: Opensolaris Vs. Ubuntu

["Mike Reiser" <metalhead1009000 gmail com>]

With all the problems users have reported gettig it to work, I think that 
the distros should enclude speech dispatcher and provide it as the default. 
The user should not have to jump through hoops just to get the sound to 
work.

Mike
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From: "Halim Sahin" <halim sahin t-online de>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:34 AM
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: [orca-list] linux sound issues Re:  Opensolaris Vs. Ubuntu

> Hello,
> The mentioned audio problem in linux does only ixist because no 
> configuration
> was made to reflect accessibility needs.
>
> I think I have written this about 20 times in this list:
>
> Opensound drivers were not free which was the reason for creating
> alsa.
> OSS had no softmixing features at this time!!!
> Currently a user can play and enjoy his favourite song together with 
> speech
> output.
> This needs complex configuration because no distribution does a usefull
> one at this point.
>
> Currently the biggest problem is gnomespeech.
> Orca uses as default gnomespeech to provide speech.
> This is not a good solution because
> 1. It depends on gnome but we want to use the
> textconsole as well
> 2. it doesn't handle soundoutput itself.
> All synths must implement their own output methods
> This is really bad for endusers.
> They want use viavoice wich is (outdated).
> It uses oss as default and BTW. does it run under opensolaris?
> To use oss apps with orca we have two things.
> 1. use direct oss compat layer  output e. G. through /dev/dsp (wich is the 
> bad
> solution).
>
> 2. Use aoss wrapper wich is should be prefered because of softmixing!!!
>
> The best solution for all problems is Speech-dispatcher.
> It has native alsa output and works great for me on all my machines
>
> my drivers are:
> snd-hda-intel, snd-emu10k1, snd-intel8x0 snd-via17xxx, snd-usb-audio.
> speech-dispatcher plays the speechoutput and doesn't relay on synthesis 
> output stuff.
>
> I am voting for
> 1. using speech-dispatcher as default speech system under orca.
> 2. Distributions shouldn't try to route sound of speechsystems through 
> soundservers like
> pulseaudio!!!
> Regards
> Halim
>
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