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Speech Dispatcher should have Libao build make config option enabled by default because of bugs in its oss backend #192

Closed am-dxer closed 7 years ago

am-dxer commented 7 years ago

I am totally blind and use the Orca screen reader to access my Dragonfly systems. Orca uses speech dispatcher to provide speech output for blind users. Without the Libao build dependency enabled, speech breaks up and does not function properly because of the problems in the oss backend for speech dispatcher. Enabling this build option allows speech dispatcher to use libao's oss support which works much better. The Libao option is more tested as well because Linux users who don't use pulse use it (The Alsa backend has issues as well).

jrmarino commented 7 years ago

A quick check on accessibility/orca reveals that the port doesn't know about libao. We'll have to customize the freebsd port to support it, so stand by ...

jrmarino commented 7 years ago

I exploded the distribution file and there's no mention of libao in orca. However, the ports version is pretty old, version 3.18. The current version is 3.24, so perhaps upgrading the version will show libao support.

am-dxer commented 7 years ago

Orca depends on speech dispatcher which depends on libao. Speech dispatcher already knows about libao, the switch just has to be enabled. Orca uses its python bindings to talk to speech dispatcher and that works fine.

jrmarino commented 7 years ago

okay, that port doesn't have options either, but I see a configuration option when I explode the distribution file.

jrmarino commented 7 years ago

correction: it does have option "AO". I'll set it on by default.

am-dxer commented 7 years ago

when I type make config, I get an option to enable libao. The following information is from the freshports page. ===> The following configuration options are available for speech-dispatcher-0.8.6: ALSA=off: ALSA audio architecture support AO=off: libao audio library support DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation ESPEAK=on: eSpeak speech synthesizer support FESTIVAL=off: Festival Speech Synthesis System support FLITE=off: Flite speech synthesis engine support NAS=off: Network Audio System support PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

am-dxer commented 7 years ago

Sorry, think you were commenting when I was.

jrmarino commented 7 years ago

okay, I've made and tested the change. It won't be available until I promote the "staged" ports to the master branch. There's another problem with rust port preventing me from doing that right now. I'll start building packages when the rust issue is finally sorted out. package building takes almost 3 days though.

am-dxer commented 7 years ago

Thanks so much for taking the time to fix this. I know there is probably not many blind people using DragonFly but it makes my life much easier when installing a new system. I will close this one.