[orca-list] orca constant crashing?

[Cody Hurst <cdog2005 gmail com>]

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I've posted, I had  
unsubscribed to reduce my mail load and am now back because I've  
finally got a working linux machine.

I have just installed a version of linux, a branch of ubuntu 9.04  
called min linux. By default, it did not come with orca so I installed  
it from apt-get. I'm running 2.26.a. However, even with speech- 
dispatcher orca still crashes at random points and for the most part  
some times after launching orca from the run dialogue, all I get is:  
Welcome to orca. and any further key presses yeild no speech and force  
me to launch orca again.

I wrote a script and bound a key combination to it to stop and  
relaunch speech dispatcher as well as orca, but this doesn't seem to  
help. I also added speech dispatcher to the startup list of services  
in gnome. A reboot does not help. So I perhaps thought it was an  
espeak issue, so I installed flite. flite installed flawlessly but  
still, orca looses speech or crashes one and I can't figure out why.  
It's not like this is an unstable version, and I don't know if 2.28  
would fix this. Does any of this sound familiar?

Also, I'm kind of upset now that TTSynth will not work, and to find  
that one day I could access ttsynth.com and the next day to find that  
it has been taken offline is upsetting, considering I bought the silly  
thing and now it won't work. Any suggestions on this? I know it's not  
an orca issue but just some of my latest encounters when trying to use  
it is all.

Thanks, and hope to get back into the grove of orca once again.

Cody