speakup, audio solutions

[Janina Sajka]

Pulse may be some people's idea of the wave of the future, but Speakup
users aren't the only ones who find pulse very problematic. Also in this
category are:

*	People who do professional level work with audio composition.
*	These folks use jack, not pulseaudio. Jack was rejected for use
*	as a mainstream approach because it wasn't sufficiently
*	lightweight. I'll leave for others to judge whether pulse is
*	actually lightweight

	I've had conversations with Planet CCRMA people, for instance,
	so that I can categorically report that pulse is removed from
	all their computers at Stanford University. It only gets in the
	way.

	http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

*	People running games, where latency really matters. Of course,
*	latency also matters to us.

This second point may be an architectural failure on the part of pulse.
Well, what can I say? They never asked our requirements before they
designed and implemented pulse, so how can it be assumed that our
requirements are met? It's the old: "Nothing about us without us" that
got violated again.

Janina


John G. Heim writes:
> I'm no expert in this area but don't you guys worry that you are
> trying to hold back the ocean with a teaspoon?  You can't fight the
> march of technology. If pulse is the wave of the future, I would
> tend to want to get started working with it rather than tossing it
> aside.
> 
> I just started working with sonar linux last week. I put it on my
> backup desktop at work. In my limited testing up to this point, it
> seems to be rock solid. I plan to continue trying it on my backup
> workstation at work and on my machine at home for a few more days
> before converting the machine I use to earn my bread and beer.
> 
> I can understand an attitude of saying that you need to postpone an
> upgrade because the technology just isn't there yet. That's why I'm
> typing this message on a machine still running debian squeeze.  But
> as soon as I am sure I can switch to a newer distro that works, I'm
> doing it.
> 
> On 11/30/13 22:38, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >Yes, screen rocks!
> >
> >I do keep the gui, mainly for firefox even though it requires that I use
> >a second audio device.
> >
> >Everything else is tty's and screen terminals. About half of my tty's
> >launch subject specific screen sessions with multiple terminals. In all
> >of those, I have aliases for mplayer to talk to several additional audio
> >devices, or ecaplay, or aplay. All works like a charm.
> >
> >Janina
> >
> >Doug Smith writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>I really have quit a bit to say here.  I have also terminated pulse with extreme prejudice on this system.  I have also terminated the entire
> >>graphical user interface with the same finality.  I am using debian testing without the desktop on it.
> >>
> >>The way it works is that, when you use the text-based installer to install the system, it uses alsa for the sound.  I have speakup system wide and I
> >>have a fully functioning sound system on here that performs perfectly.  I can use multiple audio sources, and I have nothing to worry about because I
> >>do not have to, if I do not want to, switch between consoles.  Where it works well, I just use screen and there is no problem for me to play my
> >>descriptive movie, program and whatever else all at once.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Hope this helps.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Doug Smith: Special Agent
> >>S.W.A.T  Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology
> >>Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST.
> >>
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> >
> 
> -- 
> ---
> John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim at math.wisc.edu

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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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