pulseaudio problems again

[Jeremy Whiting]

When I log in to my computer, play music in amarok, if
speech-dispatcher is running, the music is super choppy, if I kill
speech-dispatcher, the music is smooth and sounds fine. Starting
speech-dispatcher again the music becomes choppy again.

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Micha? Zegan <webczat_200 at poczta.onet.pl> 
wrote:
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> Just for sure, can you tell me what issue are you exactly getting?
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> W dniu 2015-05-01 o 07:42, Jeremy Whiting pisze:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I hit this issue this evening a bit (have hit it off and on lately)
>> so I asked in #pulseaudio and got some suggestions. I first tried
>> using libao, but with that I got no speech at all. At any rate, it
>> seems we are asking for too small of a tlength in the bufferAttr we
>> pass in to pa_simple_new. The default in the code is 100, and it's
>> taking a value from the config also. default of 100. If I set it to
>> something much bigger like 4096, everything sounds fine (and pacmd
>> list-input-sinks shows the latency we are asking for as much longer
>> than .50ms. I gather that ideally we should calculate that from the
>> sample itself. I.e with a 30ms latency and a sample of 22050Hz
>> (which I'm getting here from espeak) * 0.03 seconds (30ms) * 1
>> channel * 2 bytes because of the 16 bit sample we should be asking
>> for 1324, not 100. If that makes sense to everyone I'll put
>> together a patch that does the calculation based on the sample
>> tomorrow.
>>
>> thanks, Jeremy
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Micha? Zegan
>> <webczat_200 at poczta.onet.pl> wrote: Hey.
>>
>> I have installed archlinux with pulse/speech-dispatcher compiled
>> with libao, set libao as my default module, and set libao to use
>> pulse. It seems that at the moment everything mostly works, like it
>> still happens that there is a bad sound on login or on login
>> screen, but it is far better, and for a very short period of time.
>> After that, the sound of espeak is okay, unless someone overuses
>> the cpu of course. On a side note, I am using teamtalk and when
>> there are too many people then the effect is sometimes a little bit
>> similar to the thing that happens on the beginning of the session
>> so I am wondering if this is the same issue and what it actually is
>> :O anyway libao seems to be better, so if you have this problem you
>> can test it yourself to confirm if it's gone.
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