[orca-list] Trying out Orca and Intrepid, but still loosing speech

[ANN <tate886 gmail com>]

Hi folks,

Well, sadly, I'm still a Microsoft windows slave. <sob> But, I"m now 
trying out Ubuntu Intrepid and Orca. The last time I played with Ubuntu 
and Orca, it was version 8.04.

The main issue is that I'm still having the same problem with Orca 
losing speech after a while that I had with Ubuntu Feisty. Though, I 
will admit, it is much much longer now before Orca looses speech. In 
Feisty, it only took about ten to fifteen minutes, and now it takes 30 
to forty-five minutes before i loose all speech. Sometimes, even 
re-loading Orca does not bring speech back up, and since I"m totally 
blind, this means I have to either log out and log back in again, or 
just reboot the whole system, and go back to Windows.

this loss of speech seems to occur whether I'm using the Live Cd, or the 
version I installed using the Install Inside of Windows, feature. I wish 
I were a programmer, and knew how to write device drivers because I'd 
certainly try and write some for my Hardware TripleTalk internal synth 
and     not use software speech at all. Thanks.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this? Is there a quick and 
easy way to re-load speech if it crashes? Would disabling Pulse Audio 
and using Alsa make things more stable? Is there a more responsive synth 
then E-speak out there that can be used with Orca/

Thanks in advance for any advice.

~Ann