suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa
Gilles Casse
gcasse at oralux.org
Fri Feb 1 10:05:07 GMT 2008
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> 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.
>
The issue with the padsp wrapper is the frightening number of layers:
portaudio + oss + padsp + pulseaudio + alsa.
eSpeak could also become configurable for choosing the audio output, or
Ubuntu could provide two packages espeak using portaudio and espeak-pulse
using pulseaudio.
Best regards,
Gilles
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