-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 woops! Did I really type "also" instead of "alsa"? Sorry about that. On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:06:36PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg, > > On my system, a similar problem with software speech followed the > upgrade of the alsa libraries (libasound2) from 1.0.15 to 1.0.16, and > takes the form of the disappearance of the first couple hundred > milliseconds of a wave file played by aplay. > > The problem does a real number of software speech with espeak, which is > made up of numerous very short wave files, so it is more noticeable. > When you use flite, each wave file produced by that engine contains > leading and trailing silent periods, which makes it seem more sluggish, > but protects you from the alsa problem. > > If your recent upgrade of also was from 1.0.15 of the libraries to > 1.0.16, perhaps you have the same problem. > > Look more closely at how aplay handles wave files with abrupt onset of > audio and see if there isn't a very slow startup for the sound. I have > lots of sound effects here with fast onsets, such as the morse code > characters, cuckoo clock sounds, etc., where the problem is very > noticeable when aplay plays the files. > > And it doesn't help to switch to play any more either, since play now > uses alsa by default if it is present. > > I wish I knew how to backtrack to 1.0.15, but that version of the alsa > libraries is no longer available in the Debian unstable archive. > > Chuck > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Crescent (8% of Full) > > My web site is: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net, my phone is: 1-518-334-9022, > and sometimes I Jabber. My JID is: chuckh at jabber.org > -------- > For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHzfIc0maTgpPXM9cRAlTXAJ9uWnRYC9CfWouOSMKDN4orY/vougCfVIrl > BuBLdO/9ploFnlwIVu+ua/U= > =V5FD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (8% of Full) My web site is: http://hallenbeck.ftml.net, my phone is: 1-518-334-9022, and sometimes I Jabber. My JID is: chuckh at jabber.org -------- For every vision there is an equal and opposite revision. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHzfPI0maTgpPXM9cRAoKIAJ0cR+VbHfwXMDh3G2s3NE3KJ8sG4ACffE1B +cJoGdwoieon8aEuidK2Kow= =c1q0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
