This happened again to me today. I was in a MSTeams chat session (standalone app, not the web version) and opened a webpage in Firefox that garbled the sound of the meeting in progress. I noticed that when it happened that in the system audio mixer/volume control manager, there was suddenly a lot of entries for "speech-dispatcher" that previously weren't there. And this was also reflected in the list from the `ps` command:
188672 0.0 0.0 450364 8304 ? Sl 11:50 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_espeak-ng /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-ng.conf 188678 0.0 0.0 360052 5660 ? Sl 11:50 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_dummy /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/dummy.conf 188681 0.0 0.0 360084 5972 ? Sl 11:50 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/mary-generic.conf 188684 0.0 0.0 360096 5492 ? Sl 11:50 0:00 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf 188687 0.0 0.0 159724 2236 ? Ssl 11:50 0:00 /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher --spawn --communication-method unix_socket --socket-path /run/user/1000/speech-dispatcher/speechd.sock Without touching the webpage or Firefox, I used the command-line to kill the one that looked to be the main speech-dispatcher process, which was the 188687 process ID in this case (which also closed the other speech-dispatcher processes). And immediately, the audio cleared up and I was able to continue browsing the webpage while the MSTeams meeting continued. This makes me wonder if the problem is actually Firefox or if it's speech-dispatcher -- or perhaps it's the data that Firefox is streaming to speech-dispatcher?? Like the others in this thread, I have experimented with the speech settings in Firefox to no avail. If there's a magic setting to disable it, I haven't found it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906741 Title: Firefox sometimes causes garbled audio Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Opening certain applications/websites at the same time as Firefox causes the audio to become garbled. 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+build2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-56.62-generic 5.4.73 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.12 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC2: rdevans 55475 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: rdevans 55475 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC3: rdevans 55475 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: rdevans 55475 F.... pulseaudio BuildID: 20201112153044 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip 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 IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite) InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-20 (1140 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) IpRoute: default via 10.0.0.1 dev enp7s0 proto dhcp metric 100 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/firefox/omni.ja:greprefs.js:354 PrefSources: prefs.js Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=83.0/20201112153044 (In use) RunningIncompatibleAddons: False 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 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: P1.40 dmi.board.name: H67M dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.40:bd02/18/2011:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnH67M:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1906741/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
