Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason

Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason

[Keith Hinton]

Hi all. I'm using speakup, with kernel version 2.6.17, using grml Linux 0.8.
Sometimes, with software speech, I will be typing or whatever, and all of a sudden, (for no particular reason) that I can find, the speech will suddenly "dye." So, I'll normally have to re-launch speechd-up. Either that, or sometimes re-launch speech-dispatcher.
Any ideas there on that issue?
I'm sorry I cannot be more spasific, then this, but that's about all I know.
I will mention this though.. (just inc ase it helps)
The PREEMPT_BLK= option in the kernel configuration under pereempt is set to N. (No.)
I'm using espeak as the software synthesizer, and I've seriously tweeked a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as ever. And, for the most part it works fine. What interests me is this speech-loss issue.
Are there any good suggestions on swiftly restarting a given synthesizer in speakup, if it dies, and the blind person is suddenly left without speech altogether? (I'm asking,) because when I have no speech, I am almost sertin (nearly 100 percent) of the time to make typos, and such. :D
Thanks a lot!
Regards,

--Keith

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Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason

[Hynek Hanke]

Keith Hinton píše v Pá 22. 12. 2006 v 22:04 -0700:
> Sometimes, with software speech, I will be typing or whatever, and all of a sudden, (for no particular reason)
> that I can find, the speech will suddenly "die." So, I'll normally have to re-launch speechd-up.
> Either that, or sometimes re-launch speech-dispatcher.

That will most likely be due to a crash of some of the component. Could
you, please, after the situation happens, run
	ps -a | grep speech
so that we can see whether speech-dispatcher and speechd-up is running
or not (and so where is the problem).

I understand this is difficult given you have no output from the
computer. But hopefully you will be able to run the command, then
restart speech and inspect the output later.

There is a known bug in the current distribution of Speech Dispatcher
which has been fixed in CVS. We will shortly be making a new bugfix
release. Maybe it is this problem.

> I'm using espeak as the software synthesizer, and I've seriously tweeked a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as ever.
> And, for the most part it works fine. What interests me is this speech-loss issue.

I'd be very interested in those changes. Maybe they could help other
users too.

With regards,
Hynek

Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason

[Chris Norman]

You could pipe the output of ps to a file?

Chris Norman
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> Keith Hinton píše v Pá 22. 12. 2006 v 22:04 -0700:
>> Sometimes, with software speech, I will be typing or whatever, and all of 
>> a sudden, (for no particular reason)
>> that I can find, the speech will suddenly "die." So, I'll normally have 
>> to re-launch speechd-up.
>> Either that, or sometimes re-launch speech-dispatcher.
>
> That will most likely be due to a crash of some of the component. Could
> you, please, after the situation happens, run
> ps -a | grep speech
> so that we can see whether speech-dispatcher and speechd-up is running
> or not (and so where is the problem).
>
> I understand this is difficult given you have no output from the
> computer. But hopefully you will be able to run the command, then
> restart speech and inspect the output later.
>
> There is a known bug in the current distribution of Speech Dispatcher
> which has been fixed in CVS. We will shortly be making a new bugfix
> release. Maybe it is this problem.
>
>> I'm using espeak as the software synthesizer, and I've seriously tweeked 
>> a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as ever.
>> And, for the most part it works fine. What interests me is this 
>> speech-loss issue.
>
> I'd be very interested in those changes. Maybe they could help other
> users too.
>
> With regards,
> Hynek
>
>
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