[Wine] Naturally speaking + Wine better, the audio not so good

[Eric S. Johansson]

James McKenzie wrote:
> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> James McKenzie wrote:
>>   
>>> Pulseaudio is not supported under Wine and probably will not be.  ALSA
>>> or OSS are older and more mature.
>>>     
>> from my perspective, all three systems (pulse, alsa, oss) have their significant
>> shortcoming especially when dealing with usb audio.  in anycase, any ideas on
>> what is behind the 2 min delay between speaking and recognizing?  in windows,
>> delays like that combined with mediocre recognition results are usually an audio
>> problem.  in this case, I get long delays with good recognition results.
>>   
> 
> Interesting.  This has not been, to my knowledge, reported before. 
> Roseanne Dimensio works with DNS quite a bit and may be able to provide
> pointers about this problem.  BTW, how long does DNS 'last' before it
> stops working for you?

I'm seeing the delays start within the first few minutes of use.  sometimes I
can make the long delay problem go away briefly by turning the mic on and off.

unrelated Q.  I want to make natlink work so I can use python for a macro
environment.  can I set it up so that natlink links to the DNS com interface but
uses/runs Linux python?

thanks (off to bed for real ths time :-)