Orca strange text,was Re: Announcement of highlighted text

[Ricky Enger <renger carolina rr com>]

Hi Hermann and all,

I too have experienced this oddity with Orca spouting strange text 
and until now, I assumed I was the only one having the problem.

I can't paste an exact transcript of what's being said, since the 
text seems not to actually appear on the screen.  It just gets sent 
to the synth.  The text is something like:
Project version, Orca.  Ms GID, report bugs to: P.O.T,
Creation date: blah.
PO revision date: blah
Last translator: David Lodge, dave cert net, Language Team.
Mime Version: 1.0.

There's more, but that's the gist of it.  This text is reliably 
reproducible in the following situations:

Using flat review, moving by line  in Gnome-terminal, this text is 
always spoken when landing on the prompt.

In Gedit, again using flat review to move by line, the text is spoken 
any time more than one blank line is encountered.

It also occurs pretty frequently when Orca automatically speaks the 
contents of a page loaded in Firefox 3.

I suspect the problem is somewhere in Gnome-speech, since it occurs 
when I'm using either the Gnome-speech Speech-dispatcher driver or 
the Gnome-speech Phonix driver, but not when using the 
Speech-Dispatcher backend or Emacspeak speech services.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Ricky

At 09:04 AM 12/5/2006, Hermann wrote:
> Hi Krister,
> I'm using Orca 2.17.3 with espeak and speech-dispatcher, and I get read all
> the selected text, tested in gedit.
> But a strange phenomenon that i cannot explain:
> On my desktop there's an icon called _png, which points to my Windows hard
> drive. When i set the focus on it, I hear a lot of strange text, I can't
> undrstand right; it's English and my synth speaks German. But it is
> something like a projecd ID, creation date, translated by.. etc. The
> braille display does only show _png.
> When I select a larger amount of text in gedit, I always hear that
> chattering related to that icon together with my selected text - really
> crazy!
> What's going on there?
> Regards
> Hermann
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