Janina Sajka writes: >Will Walker may correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Orca does >anything with pulse audio. Rather, I think pulseaudio is being >introduced by distributions. Specifically, I know for a fact that >Fedora/Red Hat has moved to it in Fedora 8. In fact it's a bit of a >problem as implemented in F-8, because it isn't launched until a gui >login, and there's no audio access before that. And, after the login, >there's still no root level access to audio--ever. I'm suggesting people >remove it for now on F-8 installations. As a datapoint, I followed these instructions but reinstalled it later as a first look at why orca wasn't speaking. emacspeak on a virtual console was fine under either condition and under an initial runlevel of 3 or 5. cheers Peter >Janina > >T. V. Raman writes: >> you dont need to even set up a .asoundrc on things like dapper >> I believe post alsa 1.10, dmix is configured by default >> correctly. Why orca chose to add one more layer with pulseaudio >> -- or why pulseaudio refuses to work with Alsa are all mysteries >> I've not delved into -- but I do run orca and emacspeak on my >> laptop on the rare occasions that I start orca -- and they do >> both work happily with the emacspeak tts server. >> >> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cross <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Tim> It does work and it works quite well once you get the >> Tim> .asoundrc file sorted. This can be a bit tricky. For >> Tim> example, I found that the reason I couldn't get my >> Tim> soundcard to work was because it was a multi channel >> Tim> card and you had to use a specific device (in my case >> Tim> device 3) in order for the dmix plugin to work. Prior to >> Tim> working this out, I defined an 'emacspeak' device in my >> Tim> asoundrc file and then modified the sources to use that >> Tim> as the device rather than default. This had been the >> Tim> only way I could get outloud to work and still be able >> Tim> to play other sound sources. >> Tim> >> Tim> What type of sound card do you have? Maybe someone else >> Tim> has a working .asoundrc file for that type of card? >> Tim> >> Tim> Tim >> Tim> >> Tim> >> Tim> >> Tim> getting mixing to work that th epro T. V. Raman writes: >> >> Alsa dmix works --- believe in it. >> >> >> >> >>>>> "bart" == bart <bart@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> bart> Yes, but what pulseaudio does is mix sound streams. So >> bart> theoretically I could have two applications speaking at >> bart> the same time. Although alsa's dmix is meant to do >> bart> this as well. In practice it has never worked for me, >> bart> it does with some applications and not others even >> bart> though they are all using alsa. Regards >> bart> >> bart> Bart >> bart> >> bart> Janina Sajka writes: >> >> >> Unless I misunderstand it, it's not an either or >> >> >> situation. I don't believe pulseaudio provides drivers for >> >> >> audio hardware. Rather, it's for managing user and >> >> >> application access. >> >> >> >> >> >> The one use case on their site is about two people, a >> >> >> couple, logging in and out of the desktop without >> >> issues >> of audio access. Woefully insufficient, of >> >> course. We''' >> have to expand their thinking, I suspect. >> >> >> >> >> >> Janina >> >> >> >> >> >> bart@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:> Hi list, >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Does anyone know what would be involved in getting >> >> the >> outloud speech server to use pulseaudio instead of >> >> alsa >> directly? >> >> >> > >> >> >> > If this was done am I correct in assuming that >> >> emacspeak >> would be able to run along side orca if they >> >> are both >> using pulseaudio? >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Has anyone already thought about this? >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Regards >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Bart >> >> >> > >> >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >> >> >> address on the > emacspeak list send mail to >> >> >> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a > subject of >> >> >> "unsubscribe" or "help" >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; >> >> sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC >> >> >> http://CapitalAccessibility.Com >> >> >> >> >> >> Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone >> >> in >> the U.S. and Canada Learn more at >> >> >> http://ScreenlessPhone.Com >> >> >> >> >> >> Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux >> >> Foundation >> http://a11y.org >> bart> >> bart> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> bart> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >> bart> address on the emacspeak list send mail to >> bart> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of >> bart> "unsubscribe" or "help" >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best Regards, --raman >> >> >> >> >> >> Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx WWW: >> >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: >> >> tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx PGP: >> >> http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: >> >> tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >> >> address on the emacspeak list send mail to >> >> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of >> >> "unsubscribe" or "help" >> >> >> Tim> >> -- >> Tim Cross tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx >> Tim> >> Tim> There are two types of people in IT - those who do not >> Tim> manage what they understand and those who do not >> Tim> understand what they manage. >> Tim> >> Tim> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Tim> To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your >> Tim> address on the emacspeak list send mail to >> Tim> "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of >> Tim> "unsubscribe" or "help" >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> --raman >> >> >> Email: raman@xxxxxxxxxxx >> WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ >> AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx >> PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc >> Google: tv+raman >> IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs > >-- > >Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxx >Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com > >Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada >Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com > >Chair, Open Accessibility janina@xxxxxxxxxxx >Linux Foundation http://a11y.org > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the >emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a >subject of "unsubscribe" or "help" > -- Peter Rayner: LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire CEA-CNRS-UVSQ address: Bat. 701 LSCE - CEA de Saclay Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif/Yvette work: +33 (1) 69 08 88 11; mobile: +33 (6) 75 46 56 52; fax: +33 (1) 69 08 77 16 mail-to: peter.rayner@xxxxxxxxxxx web: http://www-lsce.cea.fr/Pisp/52/peter.rayner.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help"
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