Resending from the correct address. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:52:07PM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > Hi Do you know if there has been any fixes for the speech-dispatcher alsa output since 0.7 was released? > The 0.7 version crashes if I use alsa and pulseaudio isn't an option here since it locks my sound card. > I still depend on espeakup for speech output in the console. Fortunately, Debian still has the espeak gnome-speech driver. > That's my current solution, but the upgrade to gnome 3.0 will likely end support for gnome-speech, so I need to get a working speech-dispatcher. > > Kenny > . > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:22:17PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > More saga on pulse audio here. I started messing with default sample > > rate and at one point, I had really good sound from mplayer playing > > music but as soon as I started speech-dispatcher, then it all went to > > hell again. In fact, the music playing through mplayer even got > > distorted. As soon as I killed pulse and restarted it again, then it > > sounded good again. Speech-dispatcher keeps screwing it up. At one > > point, I had pretty decent sound coming out of gnome along with Orca > > using speech dispatcher but now I can't seem to get pulse back right > > again. I can't believe how volital pulse audio is. No wonder so many > > people have so much trouble with it. It may be very complicated for > > anyone who is simply trying to use it. I thought alsa was bad at one > > time but pulse really cuts the cake. > >
