[orca-list] Alternative sound server

[mike ray 1964 gmail com]

Hello,

Can anybody point me in the right direction for how to configure Orca to 
use an alternative sound server to speech-dispatcher?

I have been trying for some months to get espeak and speech-dispatcher 
going on the Raspberry Pi.  I have finally managed to get 
speech-dispatcher to run with some stability and have reduced the size 
of the audio queue and block size but the keyboard is still unresponsive 
at times.  And although the audio is now solid, where it was stuttering 
using espeakup, it occasionally causes a kernel oops because of a null 
pointer passed to the kernel by the video-core hardware interface 
process.

Today I discovered that I can use the OpenMAXIL library to write 
directly to the video-core on the ARM chip.

I want to get something running which I can use as a much leaner 
back-end for Orca so that I can finally get an accessible desktop 
working.

Mike

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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/programmer
Witley, south-east Surrey, UK

Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi?:
http://www.raspberryvi.org/

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