This allows to make sure to reach the maximum volume permitted by the
hardware. This makes the default volume (5) set ALSA volume to 80%, like
the default ALSA scripts do.
This is not enabled by default, since users will probably want to use a
mixer to fine-tune their volume. But for e.g. installation images, this
allows to spare the use of a mixer and just use the speakup volume
control.
The reason I went to autotools was the multiple sound systems, but since
we are now just using espeak's audio processing we can go back to a more
simple build system.
It turns out that the install commands need to have the permission
options otherwise the permission of everything that is installed is 755,
which is not correct.
The goal is to create threads for the reader, que runner/espeak
processing and signal handling.
As of this commit, this code is still being worked on, so it is broken.
This commit updates the makefile and the documentation to explain how to
build alsa support. It has not been fully tested, so it is not built by
default. Also, I was able to remove the conditional compile directives
from the source.
Make espeakup a multi-threaded program. One thread reads from the softsynth
device, queuing text and synthesis commands. The other thread processes
items from the queue.
I have added queueing support so that when we read from the softsynth we
can put the text and commands we have read into a queue. This will
allow us to retry calling espeak_synth() if we fill espeak's internal
buffer.
The functionality to create a tarball has been moved into the makefile.
Now it is possible to create a tarball by doing:
make tarball - creates a tarball of the llast tagged version.
make TAG=gittag tarball creates a tarball based on the tag that is given to it.
