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

["hank smith" <hanksmith5 gmail com>]

Hello luke
I to am for this idea
Hank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Schmude" <j schmude gmail com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Orca, gnome-speech and pulseaudio


> 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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