Hi, I was having the same problems with pulseaudio. The pauses every few wordes were quite interesting. Removing pulse solved sound problems for more than just orca though. I am still using speech-dispatcher with no problems. Did you remember to run spd-conf and set it to use alsa instead of pulse? I am using 64 bit Karmik.
-- Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ What color dragon are you? http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/alustriel07/what-color-dragon-would-you-be/ On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 08:57 -0500, Bill Cox wrote: > I'm very glad to hear about positive experiences so far with Karmic. > I installed the x64 version yesterday on my laptop (Dell Inspiron > 9400). Orca did work out-of-the-box, which is nice. If blind users > absolutely must do a few things on linux, Karmic can do the job. > However, I found there to be a delay due to pulseaudio of about 1/2 > second, making key and word echo useless. The delay is so bad, I > don't see how I could use Karmic with Orca full-time. I installed > voxin as well (far nicer than espeak, IMO), and had two additional > problems, besides the delay. When using speech-dispatcher, speech > would pause every few seconds for about half a second, which is > seriously annoying. When using Gnome Speech Services, instead of > pausing, it simply stops speaking, so it is very tedious to listen to > an entire document. I suspect both problems are related to the delay > in pulseaudio. > > With the virtual machine install, I was able to get Orca working well > by uninstalling pulseaudio, as described here: > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuKarmic > > However, when installed on my laptop, removing pulseaudio caused > speech-dispatcher to hang, with 100% CPU utilization. So, for now, I > have no suitable Karmic-based Orca solution. Are other people seeing > the delay problem? Is it only with the x64 version? Are you using > Karmic/Orca as your main machine, or just playing around a bit? > > Thanks, > Bill >
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