Alsa/Pulseaudio conflicts

[Halim Sahin]

Hi Gilles and List,
On So, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:38:31 +0200, Gilles Casse 
wrote:
> - starting sd with its pulse audio output in the user session.
> 
Using pulseaudio in speechd works not very fast .
It has problems stopping the speech output.
in my opinion this is not very usable.


> or other options 
(e.g. stop the pulseaudio daemon,...).
 

> What would be your recommendations for the forthcoming users wishing to 
> install sd in a pulseaudio based system?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
My recommendation is not to use a soundserver with accessibility 
technologie. 
I think it will be more efficient to fix the problems in alsa's dmix 
plugin.

My tests were done with speechd 0.6.6, pulseaudio 0.9.9-1 from debian 
sid.
I made tests with sbl which has a native viavoice driver and 
gnomespeech.
In fact they are altogether slow and not usable.
Changing settings like nice level realtime stuff did not help.
BR.
Halim