Public bug reported:
My system has, on more than one occasion, spontaneously begun making
horrible noises. Don't have to be doing anything that generates audio.
Orca wasn't even turned on and was not set to use cicero. The previous
time this happened, I was able to trace it to speech dispatcher/cicero.
pavucontrol was helpful. On the most recent occasion, I killed
sd_cicero and the noise stopped.
The noise sounded like a stale ring buffer was suddenly being played
continuously. The contents of which were extremely unpleasant.
sudo apt-get remove speech-dispatcher-cicero cicero
dpkg -l | fgrep -i speech-dispatcher
ii speech-dispatcher
0.8.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Common interface
to speech synthesizers
ii speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins:amd64
0.8.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Speech Dispatcher:
Audio output plugins
ii speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng
0.8.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Speech Dispatcher:
Espeak-ng output module
ii speech-dispatcher-festival
0.8.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Festival support
for Speech Dispatcher
ii speech-dispatcher-flite
0.8.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 Speech Dispatcher:
Flite output module
ii speech-dispatcher-pico 0.8.8-2
amd64 Speech Dispatcher: Pico
output module
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: speech-dispatcher-cicero 0.8.8-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-40.32~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Mar 4 00:26:38 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-02 (306 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: speech-dispatcher
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: speech-dispatcher (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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