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

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hi,
On Do, Dez 17, 2009 at 02:59:45 +0200, A wrote:
> Could you explain what are the benefits of using that library instead
> of the default drivers. 

(stability, performance).

> I'm mainly interested if it is improving
> stability because this is the main concern I have. And seems like
> stability is not on the highest possible level with the original
> driver.

Unfortunately the default drivers of speechd have some problems:
1. alsadriver  segfaults (see libasound diskusion in sd list).
2. Pulseaudio has stability/performance problems
3. oss driver (not well usable under linux because of softmixing issue).
4. nas untested.

Libao works stable here tested with alsa and pulse.
Just try and see :-).
Regards
Halim