Re: [Emacspeak] Pipewire v 1.0.2 broken

["T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good to know.

I suspect I got the pulse deps because of pipewire-pulse --as with
everything else OSS my plan is not to support every configuration, but
rather to know configurations that work, so your discovery is useful.

Tim Cross writes:
 > 
 > Hi Raman,
 > 
 > the software dectalk server doe snot link directly to alsa. There is no
 > line in the Makefile for -lasound.
 > 
 > However, the server does link against the dectalk shared library
 > tts_us.so, which is linked against asound.so.
 > 
 > Looking at the output from configure for the dectalk software, it looks
 > like the dectalk can link against pulse, but as I didn't have the
 > pulseaudio-libs-devel package installed, it linked against alsa.
 > 
 > I've now installed pulseaudio-libs-devel and rebuilt the dectalk
 > package and it now works.
 > 
 > So the trick seems to be you must ensure you have the
 > pulseaudio-libs-devel pacakge installed. Without it, the dectalk softare
 > will fall back to linking against alsa. As I think voxin ensure alsa
 > devel libs are installed in order to support outloud, it is likely many
 > people have dectalk linked against alsa rather than pulse as there are
 > no other obvious dirvers to install the pulse development files.
 > 
 > 
 > "T.V Raman" <raman@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
 > 
 > > Hi Tim,
 > >
 > > I just reconfirmed that the software-dtk server in emacspeak does not
 > > make any alsa calls. Could you try rebuilding that library in
 > > servers/software-dtk after removing the line in the Makefile where it
 > > links against the asound library?
 > >
 > > Would be good to know if that works.

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