-- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 06:27:36 From: Samuel Thibault <sthibault@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Sam Hartman <hartmans at debian.org> Cc: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org, pulseaudio at packages.debian.org Subject: Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management Resent-Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 11:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Resent-From: debian-accessibility at lists.debian.org Hello, Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500, wrote: > * Will limiting the number of streams speech-dispatcher opens have any > significant improvement. Are there actual costs to having the > sd_generic and sd_dummy streams open even when they are unneeded? I don't think there is: they remain dormant. > * Would it be worth the complexity to close the speech dispatcher > streams after a period of inactivity? That could be useful indeed. I suggest reporting a feature request on the github speechd repository, so people can contribute code to implement it (Debian by itself should not integrate such a patch without it being upstream). Samuel