-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The problem we are having seems to be some sort of threading problem in either speech-dispatcher, speechd-up or both. It only seems to affect dual-core systems and seems to die randomly, but only when being used. In other words, if something appears on the screen and is to be spoken or if a character is typed and is to be spoken it could trigger the death of speech-dispatcher and/or speechd-up. However it can run for days if not used. The problem doesn't seem to affect speech-dispatcher if speechd-up is not used. I have been able to run Orca using the gnome-speech interface to speech-dispatcher without speech-dispatcher dying. So the problem seems to be caused by the interaction between speech-dispatcher and speechd-up when text is to be spoken via speechd-up. As for the sound card issue, it doesn't seem to matter what sound card is used. I have used both my integrated nvidia sound device which uses the snd_intel8x0 driver and my sb live value with equal successes and failures. I can't speak for your problem with swspeak since I run Ubuntu which doesn't use that particular interface to speakup. HTH, Lorenzo - -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF38MpG9IpekrhBfIRAlcdAJ9KZAtvDPa/IkHarjU/HqQieFBnMACeJJw5 3MqkVRd7jJbbsgTDJohWx/0= =oYWx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
