Problem with IBMTTS module

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
I have the IBMTTs module working fine on my system with voxin, however I 
do notice a bug. When using orca with speech-dispatcher and IBMTTS, 
there seems to be times (eg. when reading a message in thunderbird and a 
link starts half way across a line, and I am using up and down cursor 
keys) that not all of the text is spoken (in the case of reading a 
message in thunderbird speech stops  at the link).

I am fairly certain this is a speech-dispatcher issue as I do not 
observe it when using orca with speech-dispatcher and espeak.

The problem occurs regardless of which audio output driver I am using 
(OSS or libao, I think I have observed it on a system when I was using 
ALSA).

I notice when using IBMTTS the two following error messages occurring in 
the speechd.log:
[Tue Nov 30 22:36:29 2010 : 217981] speechd:  Error: Module reported 
error in request from speechd (code 3xx): 301 ERROR CANT SPEAK
.
[Tue Nov 30 22:36:29 2010 : 218003] speechd:  ERROR: Can't say message. 
Module reported error in speaking: -2

The example of using orca and a link half way across the line always 
produces this bug for me. Does anyone else notice this? Any ideas what 
is the problem and is there any further information I could get for you?

This bug renders the IBMTTS module useless when using orca.

Michael Whapples