On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Kenny Hitt wrote:

>> Third, after I had it up and running, I found that often, two chunks of
>> stuff to be spoken would overlap, especially when Orca was speaking
>> something and I was using the keyboard to either type in something or

> The overlap is a side effect of dmix.  I notice it, but it isn't as long here 
> as what you experience.

In my experience, this happens if more than one program has the sound 
device open at the same time.  I don't get this behavior with eflite if 
nothing else has the device open, but I do get it if I am also running 
speech-dispatcher (since it keeps the sound device open all the time, 
regardless of whether it is actually speaking anything) or some other 
program that opens the device.  I do see the described behavior with 
speech-dispatcher even if nothing else has the device open, though, so I 
don't know if this is  what is causing it.

> I've asked for people to try it on the Orca IRC channel, but all of them are 
> busy with other things.  If I could install Solaris myself, I'd test in a 
> second,
> but there isn't an accessible install for Solaris.

Does it have a text-based install?  If so, then you could probably install 
it using the cvs version of qemu, since it includes a curses driver. 
I've only used it a little, though.  It uses oss for sound by default 
(aoss may help, though).  It can optionally be compiled with alsa support, 
but I couldn't get sound to work when using it.

-Mike G-
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