----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 4:01 PM Subject: Re: speechd-up in debian SID > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 04:00:02PM -0400, Terry D. Cudney wrote: >> I am having problems with both packages though. Randomly (or so it seems) >> software speech just stops talking. I have checked with orca when this >> happens, and everything seems to be in place. i.e. speech-dispatcher >> still talks, speechd-up is still running, the speakup_soft module is >> still loaded). Speakup core is compiled into the kernel. It stops talking >> anywhere from 2 minutes to... right now, version 0.4 has been working >> well for about 5 hours. I have had it working with and without orca and >> the gnome-terminal concurrently. > > I have seen this happen occasionally, but only with a delay of a second > or so. It started after I went from rate 8 to rate 9, and only if my > system is fairly heavily loaded. This is of course on a 32-bit > system. A shot in the dark suggestion would be to play with the > niceness of speechd-up/speech-dispatcher, and see if it helps any. I > recall someone else posting on here a while back ago, claiming that > their 64-bit system was too fast for software speech, but I don't > remember what symptoms this report was based on. Sorry I can't be of > much more help. > This is the first feedback I've ever gotten about my debian speechd-up package. It's been downloaded a bunch of times but as far as I know, I'm the only one who ever actually used it. I'm setting up an AMD64 machine right now (my doubletalk is chattering away right next to me) so I will be able to test the AMD64 package. I am pretty sure the i386 package works well because I've installed it hundreds of times on several different types of computers. But I'm not sure the 2 packages are the same. Speechd-up didn't change but linux and speakup did. My speechd-up script attempts to install an init.d script that you can use to start & stop software speech and it had to be modified quite a bit for kernels 2.6.21 and greater.
