Re: [orca-list] espeak, Pulseaudio and stuttering speech

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:16:37PM AEDT, Nick Wood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have three systems that all exhibit the same problem - and although only a
> minor annoyance I wondered if it's just me:
>
> When my systems boot, and Orca starts speaking on the logon screen, the
> speech is quite often distorted / stuttery /jittery.  After a second or two
> it settles down and is OK.
>
> Then when I log in and start Orca at the desktop, the distorted speech is
> back, and again after a second or two it settles down.
>
> Systems are Fedora 25 and Ubuntu 14.04, both 64-bit.

This is likely to do with how Speech Dispatcher uses PulseAudio. There are plans to improve Speech 
DIspatcher's pulseaudio support, but no idea when this will happen.

Luke