Bug 437668

Summary:	KMail spawns speech-dispatcher-ng and playback despite producing no audio
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Thiago Sueto <herzenschein>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gustavo.schenkel, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	Git (master)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Thiago Sueto 2021-05-25 16:15:52 UTC

SUMMARY
Opening KMail consistently creates audio applications named "speech-dispatcher-ng" and "playback" in plasma-pa. It also creates processes called sd_espeak-ng, sd_dummy, and speech-dispatcher. Those are closed after KMail closes.

This issue ends up causing bug 417457.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20210522
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.12.4-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 620

ADDITIONAL INFO
The only espeak-related packages I have here are libespeak-ng1 and speech-dispatcher-module-espeak.
I'm also using pipewire-pulse instead of pulseaudio if that matters (doesn't seem related).
I am not using systemd startup.

Comment 1 Gustavo Brondani Schenkel 2021-09-23 16:25:09 UTC

I am also having this problem, and the I still have problems with bug 417457.

Operating System: Slackware 15.0
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.14.7 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 28 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 125.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT