Re: [orca-list] [ANNOUNCE] libao (new audio driver for speechd including working pulseaudio support).

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Very much my thoughts on why SD should use libao. On the performance 
thing, I know that many have reported issues, but the one case where I 
am using SD with pulseaudio I am not suffering from that issue, however 
my use is very different to that relevant here (eg. its for a single 
application in a single user environment, etc, much simpler). I don't 
know whether when using orca if such performance could be reproduced, 
and possibly it could be very hard to configure. My general thought is 
pulseaudio is the wrong way to go, I only use it in that one situation 
and that was due to the SD alsa problems.

The only question I have, when using SD with libao, will users still be 
able to choose the audio device SD should output on?

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi,
> In my opinion sd should use libao only for audio output because of
> 1. We have no stable working audio output in speechd
> Alsa driver isn't stable enough and crashs very often.
> Pulseaudiodriver has serious perofrmance issues.
> Oss driver produces on my machine many dropouts with long documents.
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> 2. Libao is a crossplattform library and works stable.
> It contains all available outputs which spechd supports currently.
> (alsa, oss, nas, irix sun, pulse ....).
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> There is no need to develope new drivers for same task in
> speech-dispatcher.
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> Please try out the new driver and give feedback.
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> Regards
> Halim.
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