I can confirm this behavior with latest updates. This bug has rendered my system pretty useless. It doesn't matter how I start orca: from a terminal, from a launch menu shortcut or at startup. Just to confirm it wasn't a problem with gnome-speech or orca I rebuilt both with the same result.
-- [apport] espeak-synthesis-driver crashed with SIGSEGV in strcpy() https://launchpad.net/bugs/92060 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs