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Steve, Yes; Espeak going direct to oss works much better than using the PulseAudio sound server that Ubuntu uses by default. However, to get there, I had to install the Gnome development tools, checkout Gnome-speech from SVN, and rebuild the whole thing. I'm quite experienced in this arena, and I wasn't phased by the work needed to get this to work. I'm concerned that in the case of Ubuntu, at least, the average user won't have a clue on what to do, where to go, etc. Did you experience the same latency in Lenny as many of us have in Ubuntu? Regards, Steve Steve Holmes wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Steve, I just did a recent full install of Debian Lenny Testing; I chose gnome-speech because its punctuation and capitalization works verry well with espeak. So I use gnome-speech plus espeak. I believe gnome-speech uses OSS - wish it were ALSA. In any case, I find the general performance to be pretty good. I thought someone said there was a way to get gnome-speech to use ALSA but I forget how. It might have more to do with espeak. I might have to recompile espeak manually to change its choice of speech systems. From what I can tell, there isn't any way to externally tell espeak to use ALSA in Debian. On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:58:08PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:Hi Steve: The sound support on OpenSolaris seems to do pretty well and it also provides audio mixing. There's an old-ish page here on the OSS stuff: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/. Will Stephen Clower wrote: |