Re: [orca-list] Problems with speech in Intrepid

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

Hi Will,
Looking at the system processes I found two processes  called orca. Is 
this ok?

Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi David:
>
> These are very strange problems.  It sounds almost as though you have 
> two orca's running.  If you look at the system processes, do you notice 
> anything strange?
>
> Will
>
> David E. Price wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I'm having lots of problems with speech in Intrepid.  I've been 
> > spending the last several days of non-work time trying to sort out 
> > these problems.  These problems occur with both Cepstral and eSpeak. 
> > These problems include:
> >  
> > - Orca often repeats everything that it says.  This behavior seems to 
> > be based on the size of the block of text sent to the synthesizer.  
> > For instance, if I'm typing words, I will hear each word echoed.  
> > However, if I am in gnome-terminal and I type "ls", I hear the entire 
> > listing then hear the entire listing a second time.  This is dependent 
> > on the Orca start--if Orca starts and everything is repeated, the 
> > behavior will continue until I quit Orca; if Orca starts and there is 
> > no repetition initially, the repetitions will not occur  during that 
> > session. An interesting side effect of this problem is that, when it 
> > is occurring, I can't quit Orca using the Quit Orca dialog 
> > (Orca_modifier-q)--I need to use the command line "Orca -q" to quit.  
> > Right now, the repetition behavior seems to be occurring about 60-70% 
> > of the time.
> >  
> > - If I use the Orca Preferences dialog to change the speech 
> > synthesizer, I often end up with both synthesizers speaking after 
> > activating either the Apply or OK buttons. (I've yet to capture this 
> > in a debug log... whenever I'm capturing the debug log, the problem 
> > doesn't occur.  I'll try a few more times to get this recorded.)
> >  
> > - When I log off, I hear
> > the reset strings sent out through the emacspeak speech server to my 
> > DECTalk Express (not being used by Orca), then the current voice (or 
> > both voices) will say the first question of the text setup.  These two 
> > messages are spoken in parallel (given that they are using two or 
> > three different synthesizers), but the emacspeak messages always start 
> > first.
> >  
> > The two things that I have left to try are to see if I can get the 
> > emacspeak speech server running under Orca, then see if these 
> > behaviors persist.  If they do not, then I will rebuild gnome-speech 
> > from source.
> >  
> > Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> > dave
> >  
> >  
> >
> >
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