speech-dispatcher talking over itself

[Mitchell Smith]

Hi,

I raised this question on the gnome-orca mailing list a few days ago, 
however as it is specifically related to speech-dispatcher I thought it 
would be more appropriate to discuss this issue here.

> To give you some background on my setup, I am running Ubuntu 8.10 with 
> PulseAudio disabled, and everything configured to use Alsa.
>
> The versions of orca and speech-dispatcher I am using are both the ones 
> pre-packaged for Ubuntu, rather than the versions out of SVN.
>
> speech-dispatcher is configured as a system wide service, and is using 
> flite as the default speech engine (although I have also tried Espeak with 
> the same result).
>
> The issue I am having is that speech-dispatcher isn't interrupting itself 
> when scrolling through a menu for example, and is just talking over 
> itself, so often it can be trying to say two or three things at once, 
> which is quite hard to listen to.
>
> This is specific to using speech-dispatcher, I do not see the same 
> behaviour with gnome-speech.
>
> Otherwise speech-dispatcher seems very responsive, so I would prefer to 
> stick with it, rather than changing back to gnome-speech.
>
> Is there something I can change in the speech-dispatcher config, or is 
> there anything else I can try in order to improve speech-dispatchers 
> handling of interrupting speech, both to silence it and to make sure that 
> it isn't trying to talk over itself.

Any feedback on this issue is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mitch