broken pipe to module

[Guy Schlosser]

Hi all, I'm writing, concerning a problem I'm having with 
speech-dispatcher.  If I'm typing or listening to some text, using 
Espeak, speech-dispatcher will cease to speak, and I have to kill the 
process, and re-run it for speech to resume.  I'm posting below, the 
error I'm getting in speechd.log.  It was thought before that pulseaudio 
might have had something to do with it, but I've since disabled pulse, 
and am strictly using alsa.  If anyone has any further ideas, please let 
me know asap.

Thanks,


Guy
P.s. This is a ubuntu intrepid system, running on an intel c2duo 
processor, and using an on-board intel sound card.
[Wed Jan 21 06:19:03 2009 : 789050] speechd:    Cancel received from fd 16.
[Wed Jan 21 06:19:03 2009 : 789063] speechd:    Module stop!
[Wed Jan 21 06:19:03 2009 : 789111] speechd:  Error: Broken pipe to module.
[Wed Jan 21 06:19:03 2009 : 789123] speechd:   Output module working 
status: 0 (pid:6309)
[Wed Jan 21 06:19:03 2009 : 789139] speechd:  Output module terminated 
abnormally, probably crashed.