Re: [orca-list] Orca, speech-dispatcher and eSpeak stability

[Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux gmail com>]

Hi,
I reported the bug with speech-dispatcher and eSpeak on the speech-dispatcher 
list. It appears to be some kind of bug with alsa or something, even though I am 
running pulseaudio here and am having the same problem. I received a reply on 
that list that suggested I either have speech-dispatcher output via OSS or use 
gnome-speech. I liked either of these options less than I liked having to create 
a hotkey to a small script that will restart speech-dispatcher and Orca, so the 
latter is what I did. Hopefully this bug will be fixed very soon. I get tired of 
losing speech, even though I can just press a key combination to restart it. And 
gnome-speech isn't the best option for me either, since its eSpeak driver is now 
bypassing pulseaudio entirely so that I can't run Orca and have music or even 
system sounds playing at the same time through my onboard audio.

HTH,
Lorenzo
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