Re: [orca-list] Problems with speech in Intrepid

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

My problem is that I don't know how to capture the output given by 
System Monitor.
I can send the output of the ps statement.

Willie Walker wrote:
> Please send the output and I'll take a look.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Will
>
> José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > For while what I can tell is that they have the same name.
> >
> >
> > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > If they are identical, then this would be strange.  If one is the 
> > > shell script to launch orca and the other is the python process, then 
> > > this is OK.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps!
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > > José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> > > > Hi Will,
> > > > Looking at the system processes I found two processes  called orca. 
> > > > Is this ok?
> > > >
> > > > Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > > Hi David:
> > > > >
> > > > > These are very strange problems.  It sounds almost as though you 
> > > > > have two orca's running.  If you look at the system processes, do 
> > > > > you notice anything strange?
> > > > >
> > > > > Will
> > > > >
> > > > > David E. Price wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > I'm having lots of problems with speech in Intrepid.  I've been 
> > > > > > spending the last several days of non-work time trying to sort out 
> > > > > > these problems.  These problems occur with both Cepstral and 
> > > > > > eSpeak. These problems include:
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > - Orca often repeats everything that it says.  This behavior seems 
> > > > > > to be based on the size of the block of text sent to the 
> > > > > > synthesizer.  For instance, if I'm typing words, I will hear each 
> > > > > > word echoed.  However, if I am in gnome-terminal and I type "ls", 
> > > > > > I hear the entire listing then hear the entire listing a second 
> > > > > > time.  This is dependent on the Orca start--if Orca starts and 
> > > > > > everything is repeated, the behavior will continue until I quit 
> > > > > > Orca; if Orca starts and there is no repetition initially, the 
> > > > > > repetitions will not occur  during that session. An interesting 
> > > > > > side effect of this problem is that, when it is occurring, I can't 
> > > > > > quit Orca using the Quit Orca dialog (Orca_modifier-q)--I need to 
> > > > > > use the command line "Orca -q" to quit.  Right now, the repetition 
> > > > > > behavior seems to be occurring about 60-70% of the time.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > - If I use the Orca Preferences dialog to change the speech 
> > > > > > synthesizer, I often end up with both synthesizers speaking after 
> > > > > > activating either the Apply or OK buttons. (I've yet to capture 
> > > > > > this in a debug log... whenever I'm capturing the debug log, the 
> > > > > > problem doesn't occur.  I'll try a few more times to get this 
> > > > > > recorded.)
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > - When I log off, I hear
> > > > > > the reset strings sent out through the emacspeak speech server to 
> > > > > > my DECTalk Express (not being used by Orca), then the current 
> > > > > > voice (or both voices) will say the first question of the text 
> > > > > > setup.  These two messages are spoken in parallel (given that they 
> > > > > > are using two or three different synthesizers), but the emacspeak 
> > > > > > messages always start first.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > The two things that I have left to try are to see if I can get the 
> > > > > > emacspeak speech server running under Orca, then see if these 
> > > > > > behaviors persist.  If they do not, then I will rebuild 
> > > > > > gnome-speech from source.
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Does anyone have any other suggestions?
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > dave
> > > > > >  
> > > > > >  
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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