Re: [orca-list] pinpointed problem with orca being unresponsive

[Jon <j orcauser googlemail com>]

I have observed this using the IBM ViaVoice, and the espeak drivers, I 
can not say if the same is true for festival.

-Jon
On Thu 26/07/2007 at 14:38:03, Janina Sajka wrote:
> It may not even be Orca that's having the problem. For instance I have
> exactly this same problem with Speakup driving a Doubletalk LT over the
> serial port.
>
> What speech are you reporting this against?
>
> Jon writes:
> > I can confirm that gnome-terminal behaves as described below, on my 
> > machines.
> >
> > While small/medium amounts of data is output to the terminal it is still 
> > possible to get Orca to quieten down.
> > It seems once it reaches over a certain amount, (or refreshed/outputted 
> > rappidly), Orca fails to fall scilant.
> > I have seen this occur when dist-update for example, or encoding with 
> > lame/mencoder/oggenc.
> >
> > If i regularly press control to scilance it will empty the buffer and 
> > read more recent data, wheras if it is left for a longer period to read, 
> > pressing control will not make Orca catch up.
> >
> > -Jon
> >
> > On Wed 25/07/2007 at 22:50:01, Mike Reiser wrote:
> > > I believe I have pinpointed the place where the unresponsiveness/slow down of orca occurs.  It seems to 
> > > happen after I go into the terminal window.  When I go into terminal, orca works good for a bit but 
> > > then it will start reading for example, and when I press control to silence speach it does not respond. 
> > >  Also, it fails to read when I read by character in the window.  It continues this behavior if I leave 
> > > terminal open and go to another application.  However, if I exit out of terminal and press the key to 
> > > bring up the orca preferences, orca starts behaving normally.  I'm using orca2.19.5 although this 
> > > behavior has happened since I installed ubuntu.  I can verify that this is not because of ubuntu 
> > > running in the vm session, as it happened on a friend of mine's computer and he has ubuntu dool 
> > > booting.  Just was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and can recommend a fix?  
> > >  Mike
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