Hello,
In addition to the random speech slow-downs, I've noticed occational, total speech loss with orca in gnome-3. I've started running orca from the gnome-terminal in an attempt to see if any useful error messages are written to the command line. Today, I had both a slow-down followed later by a complete stoppage. The below message was waiting for me on the terminal when I got orca back up and running. What I Did: 1. launched gnome through startx. 2. launched gnome-terminal on the 1st desktop workspace. Ran orca from the gnome-terminal. 3. switched to workspace 2. launched firefox and did my routine web-stuff. 4. When orca slowed down, switched back to workspace 1, navagitated the preferences dialog and re-set speech-rate. Applied the setting and resumed work in workspace 2. Didn't see any message in the terminal output at this point. 5. When speech failed completely, switched to text console (tty1-6) killed orca (orca -f) and reloaded speech-dispatcher (# /etc/rc.d/speechd restart). Returned to gnome-desktop workspace 1, and launched orca from the run dialog. Copied message from the still-running gnome-terminal. $ orca /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/types.py:43: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed return info.invoke(*args, **kwargs) /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/orca/script_utilities.py:2395: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal unchanged = newSegment == segment $ orca --version Orca 3.3.2pre |