Re: [orca-list] Orca randomly increases speech rate

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:19:36PM EST, Hammer Attila wrote:
> Hi Milton,
>
> This is a Pulseaudio issue, already reported with Launchpad and Luke
> I think working this issue.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1267803
>
> This issue already fixed with Pulseaudio 5.0, but Trusty containing
> Pulseaudio 4.0-0ubuntu11 package version. Need founding what commit
> fixed this issue in Pulseaudio 5.0 version. After this, hopefuly the
> fix possible backporting with Pulseaudio 4.0 release.
> If you run this situation killall speech-dispatcher command and
> press a key, speech rate restoring again.

Unfortunately, this isn't nearly as easy to solve as I first thought. I am yet to find a single commit that 
fixes this, which leads me to believe that it is multiple commits that solve this in one way or another. In 
particular, the code I believe is at fault underwent a lot of refactoring in pulse 5 development, so 
backporting the fix may be difficult. In addition, bringing in large code changes to a stable release as an 
update is frowned upon, so I cannot give an ETA as to when this will be fixed, and even if I find the fix, it 
may be too big a change to be allowed in as an update, due to its potential for introducing other regressions.

Luke