-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Arch's espeakup packages, just FYI, are using the git version of espeakup with the direct ALSA option. I'd be all for getting rid of it, and I agree about the ALSA API documentation. It's not only the most ridiculously long-winded API I've ever had the displeasure to deal with, but what documentation does exist is outdated at best and nonexistant at worst. Quite honestly, I prefer the OSS API any day, and even Pulseaudio is easier to interface with than ALSA. On 03/04/2011 03:02 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:23:48PM -0800, Jacob Schmude wrote: >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi Getting espeak to switch cards was no problem. I just told >> Pulseaudio to direct espeak to my USB speaker and that did it. I >> used pavucontrol from within GNOME to do it, but I believe you >> can do it through pactl as well. That's one reason I like using >> Pulseaudio, I can direct audio where I want it regardless which >> program is generating it. I haven't gone into the espeakup source >> yet, but I notice that espeakup depends on libasound. That would >> suggest to me that espeakup is not actually having espeak do the >> audio output for some reason, but is interacting with ALSA >> directly at least for part of the process. > > The git version of espeakup does have an experimental option that > uses alsa directly. > > However, I am thinking about removing this, because there is a > setting in that code which is very system specific and the > documentation for the alsa api leaves very much to be desired. > > What does everyone else think? > > William > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing > list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNcdJhAAoJEDtK6CrF/Uo1PAYIAI0klJ1UAJTqsuRNugTSvi3f a0HicPPiHEADFjNdZQC7I39umikXOHhtUCSKRn1kfqv+ltgKhkGpdGfcjmnCvrEk D2wpyqiGFB5ppfsQjWgXOafckyMIfgSDxGCEEBR9GylmscGLBGavbD+U4hZV6LZN i6EUWFMkKTkhDAvXEhTHE42fIa9EAXIwqtEdj5rzJ6iTGjKm+dA5zmuYUzRnjh1l paAmj+JL84u6csUwuKZW8kviET1MP8cDUG5Xq1wbHYQIl6gzXm/W3KhzzaN/tMNf em8064UKoWDPg99ISJEA+ZgxPciL/lkCmWzoxBr+dujZJEIyAuIXUKKV3q0nD6U= =K3Q8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
