Hi Dennis, Samuel, On 02-09-2020 17:46, Dennis Filder wrote: > I looked into this a bit and came up with the attached patch (written > against 0.10.1-2), but for further improvement I'd need some feedback. > > The patch adds a new thread that is on the lookout for Pulseaudio > processes and reconfigures/restarts the output modules accordingly > once it finds one. This allows speech-dispatcher (with the correct > privileges) to transition between ALSA and Pulseaudio without the need > for a restart (albeit with the loss of the not-yet-spoken messages in > the module and a pause of about 1-2 seconds). In my experience it > works quite nicely. > > I don't doubt that making the output modules do the transition > themselves without restarting them would be better, but that would > require changes far more intrusive than the ones in this patch. > > N.B.: For this to fix the original bug during installation of > speechd-up, the default for AudioOutputMethod would have to be changed > to "pulse,alsa".
@Dennis, thanks a lot for working on this. Did you send this upstream as well? If not, can you do it or do you prefer we do it? @Samuel, what do you think of the patch. It's way to involved for me to judge, but it claims to solve a long standing RC issue. Paul
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