RE: orca and festival loss of speech update

[Cody Hurst <churst31 verizon net>]

Hi Will,

  You hit on a great point. There have been a lot of times when
mymachine's harddrive light will go crazy. uh oh orca just quit. This
will happen at very strange times, like if I'm sitting on my desktop, or
in a terminal or even writing an email or talking online in gaim. I have
tried killing orca, then killing festival, then running orca again. All
I get is a welcome to orca message, and nothing further, this forces me
to manually reboot the system. I still run into this issue and can't
figure out a way to get around it.

  As for the thottle of CPU speed, please please work ont his one. it
slows my machine and freezes up speech as well.

Cody

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:55 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hey Cody:
>
> We've recently done some work on the random hangs that sometimes happen
> with Orca.  The work, which is in GNOME CVS HEAD, has drastically
> reduced a number of the random hangs, but we've not been able to get rid
> of them completely.  :-(  The gnome-speech driver for festival has also
> been somewhat flaky in the past - I've seen the socket between
> gnome-speech and festival go a bit nutty and throttle the CPU.  I've
> never figured out why this is happening, but it may be something you are
> running into.  That is, if you're using Festival and the gnome-speech
> driver goes nuts, it might end up hanging Orca.  Killing festival and
> festival-synthesis-driver should help in this case.
>
> In addition, one thing I've noticed on Ubuntu is that if you run the GUI
> desktop as a "normal" user but then run a GUI application as root, Orca
> will hang while trying to access the GUI app being run as root.  I've
> not dug into this deeply, but think this is an AT-SPI infrastructure
> limitation.  For now, the workaround is "don't do that."  :-(   The good
> news, however, is that I believe IBM is working on a fix for this.
>
> Will
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 07:49 +0200, "Dorado MartÃnez, Francisco Javier"
> wrote:
> > Hi 
> >
> > I have following in a script:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > For i in `ps aux | grep synthesis-driver | awk '{print $2}'`;do kill -9
> > $i;done
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Javier.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Mensaje original-----
> > > De: Cody Hurst [mailto:churst31 verizon net] 
> > > Enviado el: martes, 30 de mayo de 2006 1:18
> > > Para: Orca screen reader developers
> > > Asunto: Re: orca and festival loss of speech update
> > >
> > >
> > > would a killall -v festival-synthesis-driver work?
> > >
> > > Cody
> > > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 12:11 +0200, Fco. Javier Dorado MartÃnez wrote:
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > Cody try to kill all the festival-synthesis-driver 
> > > processes running 
> > > > in your system and then restarting Orca. This should work.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Javier.
> > > > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 06:13:08PM -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > > > > Hi listers,
> > > > >
> > > > >   I had written an email before stating that when using Orca, it 
> > > > > would randomly quit taling. I tried then killing orca, as well as 
> > > > > Festival and then launching orca agian form the run box. This did 
> > > > > not work. I only get the welcome message, and no further details, 
> > > > > like where the focus is, usually it would say "Desktop 
> > > frame" but I 
> > > > > don't even get that. Therefore I can not use any of the 
> > > functions of 
> > > > > orca. I then killed festival and orca then tried running 
> > > gnopernicus 
> > > > > and still I get the same results. I get the welcome message to 
> > > > > gnopernicus but no further feedback. This forces me to 
> > > power off the 
> > > > > machine manually. Is this a bug in festival or Fedora core 5? Has 
> > > > > anyone experienced this before. Orca will bog out 
> > > randomly like say, 
> > > > > when typing a letter, using gaim, using evolution, etc. 
> > > Why is this 
> > > > > and how can I fix it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cody
> > > > >
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