new atcleci.so library

["Tim Cross" <tcross@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Raman,

just some feedback on the updated atcleci.so library. 

Running on Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit using pulseaudio and no asoundrc file I find the
sound is clear, responsive and I would suggest more stable as I don't seem to
get as many segfaults as I previously did. However, like others have noted, I
do seem to be getting some sound 'artifacts'. It would seem that every few
lines or words, you will get the first two or so characters of the last word
spoken again. So, if the last word was 'again' I would hear again ag, with a
slightly reduced emphasis on the second character. 

I have not yet tested sufficiently to tell if I get the same problem on my 64
bit based system, but wil check that tonight. 

Note also that apart from occasional segfault crashes, I've had absolutely no
issues with outloud udner pulsaudio with the previous version. I did not
experience the repeated sound artifact, though I did notice that the outloud
script did frequently report underruns, which id does not appear to be doing
now. 

The output now written by outloud when starting is

allocating 4096 samples
output buffered to waveBuffer with size 4096
ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin
Its setup is:
  stream       : PLAYBACK
  access       : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format       : S16_LE
  subformat    : STD
  channels     : 1
  rate         : 11025
  exact rate   : 11025 (11025/1)
  msbits       : 16
  buffer_size  : 2097152
  period_size  : 2048
  period_time  : 185759
  tstamp_mode  : NONE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min    : 2048
  period_event : 0
  start_threshold  : 1
  stop_threshold   : 2097152
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary     : 1073741824
%

My sound card is 

sudo lshw -c multimedia
  *-multimedia            
       description: Audio device
       product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 1b
       bus info: pci@xxxxxxxxxxx:00:1b.0
       version: 02
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
       resources: irq:44 memory:fe9dc000-fe9dffff

Tim

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