From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out4.iol.cz ([194.228.2.92]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1H03dG-0008Se-00 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:21:51 -0500 Received: from smtp-out4.iol.cz (unknown [192.168.30.31]) by smtp-out4.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF55165C1C for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:21:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.34] (77.93.broadband2.iol.cz [83.208.93.77]) by smtp-out4.iol.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D18147E07 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:21:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason From: Hynek Hanke To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <001001c7264f$c4a68df0$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> References: <001001c7264f$c4a68df0$6401a8c0@YOUR3ADE1B78A3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:18:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1167344337.3337.69.camel@chopin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:21:51 -0000 Keith Hinton p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v P=C3=A1 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 tweeke= d a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as eve= r. > 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