Re: [orca-list] Orca, gnome-speech and pulseaudio

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Luke
Please do not do this, or make it optional. I like to have Pulse  
present, and I find it useful in many ways especially when the  
hardware driver doesn't do proper samplerate conversion, introducing  
clicks and pops and other artifacts into the audio. In fact, there are  
certain sound setups that will barely work until Pulse is installed,  
quirky cards based on the ICH drivers (intel8x0). In these situations,  
pulse is the only thing that keeps the system useable. Let's work  
*with* it, instead of just ditching it ok? I'm really concerned with  
the "well it doesn't work, so the heck with it" attitude I'm seeing  
everywhere in the blind community. Let's not add to it in Ubuntu as  
well, and let's not create situations where certain sound setups are  
completely unuseable.
I'd be in full support of an easy way to enable or disable pulse,  
perhaps with a boot-up menu option, and have that preference carry  
over to the installed system. Let's have the best of both worlds,  
those who need or want pulse can have it, those who do not want it can  
ditch it, and without any extra steps.




On Feb 25, 2009, at 20:09, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:55:46AM EST, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> > This message will probably be the reverse of other questions I have  
> > seen
> > on this list regarding pulseaudio.
> >
> > I am running Ubuntu Jaunty with all the latest updates as of the  
> > posting
> > of this message. For the last day or so, Orca using gnome-speech is
> > bypassing pulseaudio. This causes the speech to be slightly more
> > responsive, but at the expense of no longer being able to listen to  
> > music
> > or youtube videos while doing other things.
>
> I'll look into this. I would probably suggest you disable/remove  
> pulseaudio if you really don't need it, since gnome-speech + espeak  
> will now use alsa. I am probably going to do this for default  
> accessibility installs for Ubuntu jaunty anyway, but nevertheless,  
> I'll see whats going on here.
>
> Luke
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