I have just updated the Read Etexts activity to version 6. This solves the problems I was having with pausing and resuming speech in the activity. The activity no longer hangs when you do this. Highlighting still doesn't work perfectly; it tends to fall behind and catch up. This is an issue with espeak, I think.
As noted here before, using a multi-threaded activity interferes with power management. Read Etexts will have functioning power management if speech-dispatcher is not installed, but will not if it is installed, even if you never use the Speech feature. I know Hemant Goyal was working on that problem and I don't know where he left it. He was also working on packaging RPMs for speech-dispatcher on Fedora. He has some that work but have many dependencies that chew up scare disk space. I know he's working on an alternate set of RPMs with fewer dependencies for OLPC. I haven't tried them. The instructions in the wiki for installing speech-dispatcher are incorrect and out of date. I'm hoping Hemant will update these as well when he is ready. You can read more on the Activities page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read_Etexts James Simmons _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel