Re: Orca strange text,was Re: Announcement of highlighted text

[Olivier BERT <obert01 mistigri org>]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:52:24AM -0500, Ricky Enger wrote:
> 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?

Hi, 
I have exactly the same issue using orca 2.17.3. 
Unfortunately, I have not enough time at the moment to look at the debug 
output and to inspect the source code. 

Regards,
-- 
Olivier BERT
e-mail: obert01 mistigri org