Re: different test results

[Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, ALSA is the low level sound infrastructure. However, if your system is using pulseaudio and either you use alsa utils (like aplay) rather than the pulseaudio equivalents, such as paplay or you create an asoundrc file, you can get all sorts of unexpected issues as well as reduced performance. 

I've found pulseaudio works really well on modern distros, but if you prefer to use alsa directly, your probably better off getting rid of pulseaudio to avoid unwanted interaction between the two which may cause inconsistent results with respect to audio

On 14 November 2015 at 08:23, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The basic sound output is alsa since pulseaudio doesn't make any sound but does manage alsa.

On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Tim Cross wrote:

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 15:36:38
From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: emacspeak <emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: different test results

Are you using alsa or pulseaudio as your basic sound output?

I would be surprised if SOX is causing problems. One of the options for
playing auditory icons now uses SOX. I've used this as my default for
auditory icons on both Linux and OSX for the past few months and it works
really well. I am using viavoice outloud on linux rather than espeak
though.

It isn't clear (to me) from your email exactly what you expected from your
tests and what is not working correctly.

On 8 November 2015 at 20:54, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Before doing the next test, I removed the sox package from the system then
rebooted.
This time tclsh enter just said espeak next q "this is a test." enter d
enter said this is a test.  I couldn't find any percent signs on the screen
even after hitting the enter key a couple times so I typed exit enter and
exited back to the servers directory.  With emacspeak starting up on emacs,
speech is at normal speed not slower.  That sox package and emacspeak may
not play nicely together.
I put it on the machine to enable recording from microphone into files on
the computer originally.




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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross