Re: [ANNOUNCE] libao support for speechdispatcher (with working pulseaudio :-) )

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

I applied the above patch to the git sources. Everything built, and 
./configure indicated that libao support was included.
I edited /etc/libao.conf on my Ubuntu system and set the driver to pulse 
(why isn't that Ubuntu's default, I wonder?)
I set the output method to libao. Wasn't sure about this as it wasn't 
documented in the original message, but eyeballing the patch seems to 
indicate this is necessary.
spd-conf indicates that speechd is working, though there isn't yet a 
separate libao test.
But when I switch to the speechd orca backend, I start experiencing the 
same problems that sent me to gnome-speech with my current pulse 
setup--namely, every second or two speech drops out for a bit while 
audio gets re-buffered or something. Not sure if this means that I 
wasn't using libao, or if this particular issue still isn't resolved. I 
didn't last long enough to comment on its stability, as the regular 
re-buffering was enough of a deal-breaker for me.
But, in any case, thanks for this work.