I, too, never used the screen reader, but have been experiencing the "phantom" speech-dispatcher processes. I notice them especially because they seem to interfere with other sounds that are playing (modifying the other sound with a "fuzzy" sound effect).
I have found that opening one or more web sites apparently starts the speech-dispatcher processes. Facebook may be one of the sites. Today I had opened a link from Facebook to a video on Mashable and the speech- dispatcher started sometime in the middle of the video. HOWEVER when I opened those two sites separately, the speech-dispatcher did not start. I suppose it may be some advertising on Facebook or Mashable triggering it. The speech-dispatcher processes are easy to see using pavucontrol / "Pulse Audio Volume Control" on the Playback tab, and in fact just making pavucontrol active often eliminates the "fuzzy" sound. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496542 Title: Running processes left after disabling screen reader To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1496542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
