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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736222 Title: speech-dispatcher distorts all sound To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1736222/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
