speech-dispatcher-0.5 and gcc4 (was: Re: Source tarball for SpeechD-Up available)

[Janina Sajka]

Thanks, Hynek. This is good news.

I certainly agree that we need moe than just to move to alsa. I
also support moving beyond alsa to jack--but I suspect we need to
build a bit more consensus around that.

The lack of documentation in alsa is troubling all the way around. It's
hard for developers and it's hard for users.

Still, you are giving out very very good news about all of this. Thank
you to you personally, to Brailcom, and to Gary of KTTS for these solid
moves forward. This is exciting.

Hynek Hanke writes:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:48:10AM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Let me then ask the bigger question: What's the current story about
> > alsa. When is speech-dispatcher moving to alsa?
> 
> The same answer: CVS, speech-dispatcher-0.6 :) I hope the 0.6 release will be
> around the end of september, but I don't promise anything. It all depends on
> our resources.
> 
> With the help of Gary Cramblitt of KTTSD, we made Speech Dispatcher support
> ALSA somehow. You can still use it with OSS as well as with the (NAS-side
> problematic) NAS backend.
> 
> However, there are still some unsolved issues with ALSA in Speech Dispatcher.
> On some test machines, we get crack-sounds and I still don't know how to fix
> this. Any help with this is welcome.
> 
> It's very hard because ALSA programming is very poorly documented. I'm still
> waiting for some input from the ALSA developers conference about the above
> issue.
> 
> But from our earlier discussions, you surely are familiar with the issue of
> audio output and with the fact that ALSA is not the final complete solution to
> all our headaches (even ALSA developers say this ... and point us to Jack ;)
> 
> 
> To save you one question ;), the second bigger thing comming in
> speech-dispatcher-0.6 will be full support of index marking in SSML and the
> callback mechanisms. But I'm happy to answer other questions...
> 
> With regards,
> Hynek Hanke
> www.freebsoft.org
> 
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