I believe there have been numerous patches, of which several improve stability. I have not had speech dispatcher crashes on my desktop system for some time now and I'm using the latest git version to do this. I did have some issues for a vew days on my laptop but after that, I got things straitened out on that 64 bit machine as well. This pulse audio stuff just seems so unstable and unpredictable to me. I like it in gnome where I can manage separate volume levels for different applications at the same time and I seem to be able to hear some more windows type sound icons but that distortion and static is too much for me to bare. I'm tempted to leave speech-dispatcher to use alsa and let pulse run for gnome and other things that aren't affected by it. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:51:06PM -0600, Kenny Hitt wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
