pulseaudio and speech: performance issues

[A]

Why not just switch your output to ALSA from speech dispatcher's
configuration? I still can't understand this sound server addiction
all around ;)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Lex <lex at progger.ru> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using ubuntu 9.10 with speech-dispatcher and espeak installed from
> vinux repository, as suggested by Bill Cox. Speech-dispatcher is running
> with pulse audio output. In general, speech responsiveness on my system is
> good but not ideal. Of course it is better than with speech-dispatcher that
> comes with ubuntu 9.10 by default, but it is noticeably slower than NVDA +
> espeak on windows. Also, i remember that speech-dispatcher + alsa when
> pulseaudio is removed runs smoothier.
> So my question is following: experts, do you think speech output with
> pulseaudio can be further improved or current behavior is the best ever
> possible with pulseaudio? If it is the case, i will think about switching to
> distro without such deep pulse integration.
> May be i can improve the situation by editing pulseaudio config to decrease
> latency or something like that? Or will rewritten pulse speech-dispatcher
> backend fix the situation? Can we achieve the same perfect responsiveness as
> with alsa?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Lex
>
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