Re: orca-setup, AttributeError

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Jan:

I don't think the problem is whether festival itself works or not,  
it's the interaction between festival and gnome-speech, and also  
perhaps with gnome-speech on a 64-bit distribution.  I've not had  
time to look into a fix for either of these problems.  :-(

Will

>     WW> Aha! Thanks. I've noticed some very bad things with the
>     WW> gnome-speech interaction with the festival server on some  
> Linux
>     WW> distributions. It looks like the pipe/socket between the two
>     WW> ends up going a little haywire, causing a bunch of  
> notification
>     WW> to be done for nothing. The result is usually that the CPU
>     WW> throttles to 98% and you need to kill the festival server.
>     WW> But...this may or may not be the thing you were running into.
>
>     WW> While this problem is indeed important (any bug is usually at
>     WW> the top of least one person's list), I unfortunately have to
>     WW> prioritize things and I'm putting this one below work on OOo,
>     WW> Firefox, Java, etc. Related to the gnome-speech/festival  
> issue,
>     WW> however, is that Orca should be able to recover from these  
> kinds
>     WW> of things gracefully because things can and will fail. We  
> should
>     WW> definitely get that kind of stuff resolved before v1.0.
>
> With latest version of debian package of Festival for amd64 works  
> on my
> machine OK already. (festival 1.4.3-17.1)
>
>
>
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> Jan Buchal
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