From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JQQfZ-0001Lh-00 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:17:45 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2008 17:17:14 -0000 Received: from 80-219-125-53.dclient.hispeed.ch (EHLO dell) [80.219.125.53] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 16 Feb 2008 18:17:14 +0100 X-Authenticated: #395120 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX181qNUCwQ410DmIHhw7odDA83atT8hCTuEiI6JcQD 0vROFMoUMB1BJ/ From: Lukas Loehrer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18359.6809.359553.492241@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:17:13 +0100 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Speech-Dispatcher and SMP question In-Reply-To: <000301c870bd$58fdb150$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> References: <000301c870bd$58fdb150$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.1 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: listaddr1@gmx.net, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:17:47 -0000 Keith Hinton writes ("Speech-Dispatcher and SMP question"): > How well does Speech-Dispatcher currently work on SMP systems, using the > native ESpeak module v.s a Generic module? I tried to make the native espeak module thread-safe when developing it. However, I have never had an SMP system to test it and their can always be bugs of course, especially when dealing with concurrency. > But FLite is too slow to respond to keyboared stuff for me. ESPeak should be > much better. flite is very fast. I guess the problem in speech-dispatcher is that there is some silence produced by flite at the beginning and end of each utterence. I once made a patch for this but never checked it into speech-dispatcher cvs. I will try to do so next week. > Another question: does the native module allow multiple sounds to go through > the soundcard? The native espeak module can use alsa for sound output. Thus, if the other programs are using alsa as well, they should be able to use the soundcard simultaniously. Best regards, Lukas