suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Fri Feb 1 00:07:58 GMT 2008


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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:53:58AM EST, Gilles Casse wrote:
> The pulseaudio extension for espeak works but has not yet been tested by 
> real users: so some bugs can appear or they can consider its 
> reactiveness as not acceptable. The latency can be tuned in modifying 
> some of the internal parameters of the extension (pulse.cpp) and 
> recompiling espeak. The extension has been tested up to now using 
> PulseAudio 0.9.6.
> 
> In case of bugs in the extension, I will be glad to possibly fix them.

Ok, I have decided to stick with the padsp wrapper for the moment, for one particular reason. There is a chance that users will not be running PulseAudio in their user session, and there is also a mode on the live CD where the installer will be usable with accessibility, without the entire desktop loaded, i.e the CD boots straight into the GUI installer. In these instances, espeak built against pulseaudio only is just about useless.

However, it is great to see work happening to make PulseAudio an alternative output system for ESpeak, and I will certainly keep this in mind for the future.
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