Comment 4 for bug 155807

I have Gutsy 7.10 with full updates as of today (Apr 22). I also found that transcriber and wavesurfer have choppy playback.

I downloaded the source for snack directly from

http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/download.html

and extracted the files into

/home/<user>/download/snack2.2.10

inside the snack2.2.10/unix directory, I ran the following commands in terminal:

./configure --with-tk=/usr/lib/tk8.4 --with-tcl=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 --with-alsa

make

sudo make install

Then I did the following
1. First back up the old libsnack.so files
cd /usr/lib/snack2.2
sudo mkdir bak
sudo cp * bak

2. Then copy the new libs (which the make install put into /lib/snack2.2
cd /lib/snack2.2
sudo cp * /usr/lib/snack2.2/

The crackly audio and the delayed cursor problem are now both fixed for me.
Best of luck!
Damon