Re: GNOME 2 Sound Architecture and APIs?

[chrisime uni de (Christian Meyer)]

* Bill Haneman (Bill Haneman Sun COM) [010412 17:37]:
> Hi John:
> 
> For some reason your email seems only to have turned up in my inbox 
> today...
> 
> Tim Janik (also co-maintainer of GTK+) presented a very interesting 
> presentation on his "pet project" called "aRTS" which includes a new 
> backend library, the Common Sound Layer (CSL), a new sound daemon, and 
> attempts to address realtime requirements...  I don't have the URL 
> handy; Tim, are you listening ? :-)
> 
> So this project may be the appropriate vehicle for moving forward with 
> sound on GNOME.  As you are aware, sound support is important for 
> effective text-to-speech service, which is a requirement for 
> accessibility.  At the moment just using /dev/audio is not quite good 
> enough, aRTS and CSL could allow us to avoid rolling our own wrappers 
> for text-to-speech audio support.

The homepage of aRts is http://www.arts-project.org
There might be some interesting things, but i haven't had a closer
look on it.

Greetings,
Christian