Howdy, also seeing speech-dispatcher running on 19.10. Some anecdotal
info is that I restarted and tried enabling and then disabling Screen
Reader on the login screen and it hasn't appeared in my sessions today
since, including a few more restarts.
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This issue persists in Ubuntu 19.04.
Thought something went wrong with my system when I suddenly saw four cryptic
names in my sound settings:
- speech-dispatcher-dummy
- speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng
- speech-dispatcher-generic
- speech-dispatcher-generic
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I ran into this on 18.04 -- also with Screen Reader set to off.
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Running processes left after disabling screen reader
To manage
This bug also happens in Ubuntu Budgie 17.10. To be clear, my Screen
Reader setting in the Universal Access application is Off.
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Hello all,
What's described here is not a bug but the old behavior of speech-
dispatcher.
Orca is a screen reader, the speech output uses speech-dispatcher.
speech-dispatcher is a daemon that run in background.
In the new release like 16.04 or newer speech-dispatcher stops when
there is no
Do we know what's launching the process? It's not systemd as I checked.
There should be a workaround, no?
I'm going to try to set /usr/bin/speech-dispatcher and the binaries
under /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules with chmod -x to see what
happens.
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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
Hello:
Same problem on xubuntu 16.04
$ ps xa | grep -P 'speech-dispatcher.*\.conf'
22217 ?Sl 0:02 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_cicero
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/cicero.conf
1 ?Sl 0:02 /usr/lib/speech-dispatcher-modules/sd_generic
I have the same problem as Travis. Never used the screen reader, then
this suddenly spawned four instances and started spouting gibberish.
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I have encountered a very similar problem. I had never used the screen
reader. I'm guessing that something had glitched in my system. But I had
heard a random sound while using my system and I checked the running
processes and I had found these processes running. Is there a related
bug anywhere?
** Changed in: speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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