Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio, caused by speech dispatcher
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Opening certain applications/
The audio sounds distorted with an echo.
Certain actions are guaranteed to cause this, but it can also happening when only running instances of Firefox.
I've been able to consistently cause this by launching Zoom from a link within Firefox.
This does not occur when using Chrome.
The only way to fix the issue is to shut down all audio-related programs.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: firefox 83.0+build2-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
AddonCompatChec
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20201112153044
CasperMD5CheckR
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Dec 3 16:55:36 2020
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExt
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-20 (1140 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
IpRoute:
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10.0.0.0/24 dev enp7s0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.7 metric 100
169.254.0.0/16 dev enp7s0 scope link metric 1000
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
PrefErrors: Unexpected character ',' before close parenthesis @ /usr/lib/
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-11-12 (21 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 02/18/2011
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dmi.bios.version: P1.40
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dmi.board.vendor: ASRock
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summary: |
- Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio + Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio, caused by speech dispatcher |
Can you elaborate on which audio streams are garbled? Is this for tracks being played back in firefox? In other applications? Or both?
Is this a recent regression, compared to how it worked before? If so, do you know precisely when it started happening?