speakup, audio solutions

[Alonzo cuellar]

Yes,
XFCE can work for minimal things. However, for those who are sighted and
need a magnifier I'm not sure how to get that working. The only way I can
think is to run some part of gnome with xfce. Maybe gnome shell. However,
I'm not sure how to do that.
Another question is...
Does anyone know of a console magnifier this way one could have screen
access to the console when booting.

Alonzo



On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:11:56PM -0500, Kyle wrote:
> One major problem I've had with disabling Pulseaudio on any system whose
> sound card only handles a single audio stream is latency with regard to
> the ALSA Dmix plugin. I do now have a system that probably runs best
> with such a setup, but I have found the latency associated with Dmix to
> be quite problematic, and haven't yet found a way to adjust it so that I
> can mix multiple audio streams without causing delays when interrupting
> speech or enduring a seemingly unresponsive system overall. ALso, I
> generally run GNOME with a fallback to the command line, usually in
> cases where I intentionally break something in the graphical environment
> and need to fix it, which is quite a bit more likely on the old laptop I
> would be using to test a setup without Pulseaudio than on my desktop,
> which I use for everyday tasks that require a working system, and does
> not give me the freedom to break things. I do, however, need access to
> both Orca/speech-dispatcher and Speakup/Espeakup on this system, so it
> would certainly help to be able to use Dmix or another method of
> handling multiple streams at once using Alsa witout Pulseaudio, if it
> wasn't for the latency issues I have. If anyone has multiple streams
> playing through a sound card that normally only plays a single stream
> and at the same time has figured out how to solve the latency problems
> with ALSA/Dmix, and if anyone has figured out how to keep Espeak from
> chopping words/letters in speech-dispatcher using ALSA directly, please
> let me know how to make this setup work correctly. You may certainly
> contact me off-list to help me personally with such a setup, but I'm
> thinking that many on this list may also be able to benefit as well.
> Thanks for any help.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/
> -- 
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> Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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