Outloud, alsa, and debian squeeze

["T.V. Raman" <tv.raman.tv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The slowness is due to pulseaudio.

Take one of the asoundrc files in servers/linux-outloud (in svn)
to start.

Install it in your home directoy as .asoundrc, stop pulseaudio
and kill *all* apps using sound by doing
fuser -k /dev/snd/*

then restart the TTS  server.
-- 
Best Regards,
--raman

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Best Regards,
--raman


On 2/18/11, Rob Hill <robhill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Since upgrading from debian lenny to squeeze, the performance of
> outloud with emacspeak has degraded, in that response is noticeably
> slower, and speech takes longer to cut off when arrowing through a
> buffer.
>
> Since the sound card is the same, this is presumably due to changes in
> the libasound libraries.  So I have two possible approaches:
>
> 1.  Revert to the libasound libraries used by lenny.
>
> 2.  Tweak the .asoundrc file.
>
> Can anyone suggest which approach is better, and if this turns out to
> be tweaking the asoundrc file, then which parameters do I need to
> tweak?  Responsiveness is the same whether there is no .asoundrc file
> or the one which comes with emacspeak.
>
> I am using:
>
> emacspeak 33.0 with debian squeeze
>
> emacs 23.2.1
>
> Laptop onboard sound card HDA Intel ALC 268 analogue
>
> Using alsa, no pulseaudio installed.
>
> When running lenny on the same machine, I used a .asoundrc file,
> basically the one shipped with emacspeak, with extra pcm devices
> defined for use by emacspeak and mplayer.  This worked fine.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rob
>
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