[Emacspeak] Outloud/Voxin And Pulseaudio

[T.V Raman <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guilles,

You may have seen my blog article go by about my switching to
Pulseaudio -- there are a few Voxin related bits I wanted to bring to
your attention.

I made a small tweak to the buffer-allocation logic in atcleci.cpp  to
get  lower latency from Pulse, the change should not affect pure alsa
systems.

With the above, latency with pulse did come down from the default
which was painfully high; char-echo when typing is now tolerable.

However, observed latency is still higher than  with pure alsa when
speaking a buffer full of text, e.g. try the  "cnn market data" URL
template and observe the delay between when the auditory icon is
played and when speech commences; it's significantly longer than on a
pure alsa system.

2. Something in the voxin layer appears to die more frequently --
   symptom -- speech goes silent -- but the tclsh process running the
   server is still live -- and you need to press C-e C-s to get speech
   back.

Mostly FYI, but something you could perhaps keep an eye out for while
testing the packages you build


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Thanks,

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Thanks,

--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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