Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

Hello, Sam wrote: > This is mostly true because speech-dispatcher uses blocking threads > rather than an event loop. The blocking happens in the module, *not* > the audio library. You mean in the module "speak" thread, right, I didn't think about that. Actually, I've wondered why each and

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

> "Felipe" == Felipe Sateler writes: Felipe>On Jan 6, 2018 09:36, "Sam Hartman" wrote: >> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Hello, Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500,

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

On Jan 6, 2018 09:36, "Sam Hartman" wrote: > "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Hello, Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500, wrote: >> * Will limiting the number of streams speech-dispatcher opens >>

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 09:26:39 -0500, wrote: > That makes sense to me, but is different than your earlier answer of it > shouldn't matter because they are dormant. I just meant that the presence of the modules themselves is not a problem. > If there's a benefit in suspending the

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 07:36:25 -0500, wrote: >> > "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: >> Samuel> Hello, Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500,

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 07:36:25 -0500, wrote: > > "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: > > Samuel> Hello, > Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500, wrote: > >> * Will limiting the number of streams speech-dispatcher opens >

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault writes: Samuel> Hello, Samuel> Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500, wrote: >> * Will limiting the number of streams speech-dispatcher opens >> have any significant improvement. Are there actual costs to >>

Re: Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

Hello, Sam Hartman, on sam. 06 janv. 2018 06:09:44 -0500, wrote: > * Will limiting the number of streams speech-dispatcher opens have any > significant improvement. Are there actual costs to having the > sd_generic and sd_dummy streams open even when they are unneeded? I don't think there

Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

I'd appreciate being copied on replies. hi. A while ago I was looking at the power usage of our GUI screen reader stack. I came back to that project recently. I'm running stock stretch with Orca. I'm running pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher both as user processes. I was initially suspicious