GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 553327
Cepstral synthesizers stop speaking intermittently using gnome-speech in Intrepid
Last modified: 2011-10-14 10:50:28 UTC
Please describe the problem: While using a Cepstral synthesizer under gnome-speech in Intrepid, the synthesizer will stop talking for up to 30 seconds. This happens in a wide variety of circumstances--while typing, while navigating by words, characters, or lines, and a few times during read all. Continued navigation during the loss of speech moves the carat in the direction of navigation without the speech ever stating the skipped text. Continued navigation also increases the time the speech is unavailable. I have had this loos of speech while using Firefox, Thunderbird, gedit, and gnome-terminal. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start Orca 2. Start Thunderbird (example in gebug log) 3. Open a new message to write. 4. Write text, then navigate around and add text until speech stops. Actual results: orca will eventually stop speaking Expected results: Orca should speak all of the time Does this happen every time? intermittent Other information:
Created attachment 119200 [details] debug log from Thunderbird Sorry for the length of this log. It starts out with a open Write window in Thunderbird containing a partially composed message.I then navigated around in the text, added some more text and then returned to navigating. While navigating by character in the word "message", speech output ceased after one of the 's' (the second, I think). I then pressed the right arrow key seven or so times with no speech. After waiting for about 30 seconds, the letter 'b' was spoken (where the carat was then positioned).
I suspect this is a threading bug in the Cepstral engine itself. I'm reassigning this to the gnome-speech product, but it is going to take some cooperation with the Cepstral organization to resolve this. We've tried working with them in the past, but the response has unfortunately been minimal. More voices contacting Cepstral directly (e.g., your voice) may help.
gnome-speech development has been stalled and it has been replaced by speech-dispatcher [1]. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-bugsquad/2011-October/msg00001.html