[Tts-project] Bug#801670: speech-dispatcher: Hangs and does no longer take speech from Orca until killed

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 08:39:04PM AEDT, Mario Lang wrote:
> Package: speech-dispatcher
> Version: 0.8-7
> Severity: important
> 
> I am using Orca with Speech-Dispatcher, and just had speech output hung
> completely.
> Restarting Orca and even the complete X11 session did not help.
> 
> I had to kill the speech-dispatcher process running under my user
> manually.

This brings to mind a work-around that was added to Speech Dispatcher in
0.8.1, that would kill the server if a speech synth module died and the
connection to it was lost. Its not a clean solution, but it would at least
mean that the Speech Dispatcher daemon could be restarted automatically
after it died.

The commit from upstream git where this is fixed is 7a4fae3d.

As for Speech DIspatcher not being cleaned up when X shuts down, that
is something that is addressed in the current master development branch,
although there is no ETA for release, given its a big change, and other
changes are planned.

Luke