If GNOME3 is going exclusively pulse, that doesn't leave much choice. I wasn't originally aware that espeak was maxing out the volume in pulse; suppose that is the cause of our volume instabilities then? Because at one point last week, I was in GNOME and managed to have most other sounds going along pretty good without distortion or crackling or any of that but it seemed that as soon as I rebooted and brought up speech dispatcher then it all went to hell and of course, speech dispatcher launches espeak; so is that where the problem lies? As for other sound alternatives, whatever happened to OSS4. I had heard comments that it was even better than pulse. I notice that none of the speech systems I know of implement OSS4 AFAIK. On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:30:15PM +0000, Christopher Brannon wrote: > Jacob Schmude <j.schmude at gmail.com> writes: > > > 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, > > No, they aren't. Look more closely at the PKGBUILD. > How did you come to this conclusion? > If you're trying to use the "device" setting in espeak's configuration > files to redirect espeak's output to another sound card, it won't work, > because of an espeak bug. The option wasn't being parsed correctly. > AFAIK, it is fixed in the testing versions of espeak. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
