From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1H05fL-0001yU-00 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:32:08 -0500 Received: from aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20061229003136.UVWX28196.mtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:31:36 +0000 Received: from WORKLAPTOP ([86.20.68.163]) by aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with SMTP id <20061229003133.YRMN26699.aamtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@WORKLAPTOP> for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:31:33 +0000 Message-ID: <008101c72ade$3acedbd0$5802a8c0@WORKLAPTOP> From: "Chris Norman" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001001c7264f$c4a68df0$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> <1167344337.3337.69.camel@chopin> Subject: Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:13:45 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:32:08 -0000 You could pipe the output of ps to a file? Chris Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:18 PM Subject: Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >