Re: [orca-list] possible bug, orca refuses to speak any apps or incoming text if not started with the desktop in focus

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
> I've just noticed a weird bug, I think it's a bug, in the latest orca mster, although it's been present  
> since at least 
> orca v3.12, possibly earlier. If speech-dispatcher crashes, which sometimes happens when using alsa, I have 
> a keyboard 
> shortcut that kills orca, speech-dispatcher and then runs orca --replace to restart it. 

I think you can use libao with Speech-Dispatcher and avoid the crashes. I run
PulseAudio here and haven't noticed any issues, but obviously you're avoiding
that for some reason. Using Speech-Dispatcher with its ALSA module is known to
be unreliable.