Orca, Speech-dispatcher and power management

[Samuel Thibault]

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 is: they remain dormant.

> * Would it be worth the complexity to close the speech dispatcher
>   streams after a period of inactivity?

That could be useful indeed. I suggest reporting a feature request on
the github speechd repository, so people can contribute code to
implement it (Debian by itself should not integrate such a patch without
it being upstream).

Samuel