Hi Daniel, Thanks for the tip, but I have allready made myself a script to restart speech and I gave it the name "spup" (SPeechd-UP) for quick typing. I have also enabled it in the sudoers file so that I don't have to be root to execute it. Thanks for the tip anyway. Rynhardt * Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> [080121 17:44]: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Rynhardt P Kruger wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a strange problem on my grml 1.1 rc1 box. > > Often speech-dispatcher will crash, with nothing in the log and no message on the console. It just did it again while I > > was typing the previous sentence. When that happen, I have to killall speechd-up and than start speech-dispatcher and > > speechd-up again. > > Ok. I sometimes get this problem. > (It happens a bit but not as much as what you said) > I just wrote myself a script I run (its in my path) > and I get speech back. > I guess I could try the espeak driver but haven't had time. > > My simple script is at: > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/projects/restart-speech-0.3.tgz > > You probably already thought of this... > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > d.dalton at iinet.net.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- I use grml linux (http://grml.org/)