Re: [orca-list] Another speech dispatcher crash.

[Tomas Cerha <cerha brailcom org>]

Fabrizio Marini wrote:
> spd-say "ciao"
> obtaining an error message like this:
> client: speech dispatcher: connection refused

Hello Fabrizio,

This means that Speech Dispatcher is not running (most likely because it
crashed).

> I restarted Orca some way (can't remember how), opened the 
> preferences dialog box and saw that it was impossible to choose 
> speech dispatcher as synthesis system.

Yes, you must first restart Speech Dispatcher (in Debian or Ubuntu run
/etc/init.d/speech-dispatcher restart).  You even don't need to restart
Orca, just restart SD and you get the speech back immediately.

If that crash happens again, can you please send a bug report to Speech
Dispatcher mailing list?  See http://www.freebsoft.org/speechd for more
info.  If you send SD logs from the time of the crash, it can help.
There is currently one known issue with dual-core machines.  Could that
be your case?

Best ragards, Tomas