speech-dispatcher 0.6.4 issue

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Jan and Willem, thanks for your suggestions.

And Jan, thanks for helping fix the speechd mailing list issue.

The aoss solution does not work for me. At least not completely. The
test Willem made using the play command was not conclusive, since as I
think I reported earlier, the play command continues to work when other
oss applications, such as swift, madplay, and flite, all fail. 

I used aoss followed by examples of swift, madplay, and flite, with and
without speech-dispatcher running. Here is what I find:

1. madplay works as well with or without speech-dispatcher, so that
seems to solve the issue for that application.

2. swift and flite sound unacceptably distorted when used with aoss,
with or without speech-dispatcher running. So while aoss seems to solve
the speech-dispatcher issue, it cannot be used due to this serious
distortion.

3. Play works with or without aoss, with or without speech-dispatcher,
and so is not a helpful application with which to test the problem.

Finally, I have found that if I add only one module to
speech-dispatcher, the espeak-generic module, all my applications work
correctly and none of them require aoss.

This behavior is new behavior for recent upgrades of speech-dispatcher
on my system, but at the same time I have made so many other upgrades
that I cannot say for sure where the problem lies. However, I do now
have a solution: avoid adding the flite or festival modules when
running speech-dispatcher. 

Chuck

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