The chipset in question is a built in audio device on a laptop and alsa uses the I82801DBICH4 driver. As far as things seem to go, normally this has behaved well, but I don't know technically whether there may be some problems. From Michael Whapples ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilles Casse" <gcasse@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:54 PM Subject: Re: Espeak, gnome-speech and alsa > Hi, > >> When using the espeak binary (not the speak, not tried that, so using the >> shared lib), I now have quite a long delay from pressing the enter key >> after >> typing the command and the speech. > > This one is related to PortAudio V19 and depends on the current chipset. > The PortAudio mailing list has been contacted. > In principle, this issue only affects the command line (or > Speech-Dispatcher or gnome-speech). > > Could you please indicate which is your sound chip or audio card? > >> When using the espeak >> command, if I have speakup speaking (using speechd-up and >> speech-dispatcher, >> producing sound using alsa) then espeak can start speaking across the >> output >> (multiple sound output, possibly success), but if espeak starts speaking >> before speakup is made to speak, then espeak blocks the sound card and >> speakup speech doesn't come through. > > This behaviour might be hopefully improved in eSpeak for some chipsets. > Otherwise, patch might be offered to PortAudio. > > A little bit of development time is needed. > > Cheers, > > Gilles > > > > -- > Oralux http://oralux.org > > > >
