Re: [orca-list] Problem with speech stopping when using ibmtts and speech-dispatcher

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

 Hi Michael,
There are some words that can crash ibmtts, perhaps this is the case.
When this happens, I kill speech-dispatcher.

On 10/03/2010 02:02 PM, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I am noticing a problem when using ibmtts with speech-dispatcher, orca 
> stops speaking near links with that as the synthesiser set up. I am 
> not sure where the fix should be made, but I can reliably produce it 
> when using orca, so its certainly something to do with what orca is 
> sending to speech-dispatcher. Please say if you want me to file this 
> as a bug against orca.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Set orca's speech output to speech-dispatcher and synthesiser as 
> ibmtts (I am using the UK English voxin).
> 2. Go to a web page where there is a link in the middle of the line 
> (http://wiki.archlinux.org will do and will be the example for the 
> rest of this report).
> 3. Cursor down on to the line with the link in the middle of it (in 
> the archlinux wiki example the bit where it lists all the languages 
> will do).
>
> Expected: Orca will read the entire line.
> Actual: Orca will stop at the end of the first link, in some cases it 
> will stop at the beginning of the first link. It always seems to be at 
> the join of text and a link.
> Repeatability: One of the two options in actual will always happen.
> Additional information: Orca 2.30.2, speech-dispatcher 0.7.1, all on 
> archlinux (I think I have seen it on a debian system but can't 
> remember versions, I think it was present in earlier 
> speech-dispatchers). I do notice error messages in my 
> speech-dispatcher log files, would these be useful? I don't get this 
> when using espeak with speech-dispatcher.
>
> Michael Whapples
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