suggestion: compiling espeak to use alsa

[Luke Yelavich]

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Hi Gilles
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:21:36PM EST, Gilles Casse wrote:
> Today the best speech reactiveness is probably obtained using
> speech-dispatcher/alsa + espeak.

I agree, but its too late in this cycle to get that properly implemented, and tested.

> If Hardy will use gnome-speech and PulseAudio, you may want to check
> eSpeak with its new PulseAudio support. In eSpeak 1.31, a special Makefile
> exists for using the PulseAudio extension. All this is a little bit in
> beta stage, so it will be better than users who are looking for a solution
> which just works, wait a little bit.

This is absolutely wonderful. What do you mean by a little bit, how long? We have less than 2 weeks for feature freeze, and I need to have all of this stuff sorted before then, so we can then do testing and bug fixing.
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