Comment 3 for bug 1736222

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote :

Workaround: when I hear the distorted sound, I open a terminal and issue this command

$ killall speech-dispatcher

This works until the next time I hit a web site that causes the issue.

I don't know anything about speech dispatcher, but I wonder if multiple speech-dispatcher processes be interfering with each other? I usually start with

$ ps uax | grep speech

and I usually see five or six processes

twt@host:~$ ps uax | grep speech
twt 9165 0.0 0.0 289000 5092 ? Sl 11:01 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf
twt 9168 0.0 0.0 289012 4976 ? Sl 11:01 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/generic.conf
twt 9171 0.0 0.0 289000 5088 ? Sl 11:01 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_cicero /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/cicero.conf
twt 9176 0.0 0.0 327320 8756 ? Sl 11:01 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf
twt 9181 0.0 0.0 97216 2220 ? Ssl 11:01 0:00 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn --communication-method unix_socket --socket-path /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock