Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason

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You could pipe the output of ps to a file?

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup and software speech dying for no particular reason


> Keith Hinton p??e v P? 22. 12. 2006 v 22:04 -0700:
>> Sometimes, with software speech, I will be typing or whatever, and all of 
>> a sudden, (for no particular reason)
>> that I can find, the speech will suddenly "die." So, I'll normally have 
>> to re-launch speechd-up.
>> Either that, or sometimes re-launch speech-dispatcher.
>
> That will most likely be due to a crash of some of the component. Could
> you, please, after the situation happens, run
> ps -a | grep speech
> so that we can see whether speech-dispatcher and speechd-up is running
> or not (and so where is the problem).
>
> I understand this is difficult given you have no output from the
> computer. But hopefully you will be able to run the command, then
> restart speech and inspect the output later.
>
> There is a known bug in the current distribution of Speech Dispatcher
> which has been fixed in CVS. We will shortly be making a new bugfix
> release. Maybe it is this problem.
>
>> I'm using espeak as the software synthesizer, and I've seriously tweeked 
>> a few lines in spech-dispatcher, so that espeak is as responsive as ever.
>> And, for the most part it works fine. What interests me is this 
>> speech-loss issue.
>
> I'd be very interested in those changes. Maybe they could help other
> users too.
>
> With regards,
> Hynek
>
>
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