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