Comments on: Don’t Speak Twice, It’s All Right

By: Andy Lee

Andy Lee — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:01:10 +0000

Nice sleuthing! And I love the reference to one of my favorite songs.

I somehow missed the presence of NSSpeechSynthesizer

See, if you were completely speech-ignorant like me you could have searched for “speech” in AppKiDo, and NSSpeechSynthesizer would have been second on the list, after NSSpeechRecognizer. :)

By: Casey Fleser

Casey Fleser — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:08:34 +0000

Beware NSSpeechSynthesizer is quite leaky (radar://4387934) . So plan on allocating one and keeping it around for the life of the app.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:56:31 +0000

Wow … that’s pretty amazing. In that case I’m especially surprised this bug has survived so long …

By: rentzsch

rentzsch — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:55:11 +0000

This is reproducible in all Cocoa apps that have an NSTextField and don’t go out of their way to disable the “Start Speaking” menu items (both the menu-bar one and the contextual one). Just starting speaking some text and while it’s speaking, do it again. I run into this on a regular basis since I often have my Mac read back my blog postings to catch errors.

Bonus cool: Crash Reporter itself has a selectable NSTextField, so it’s simple to crash Crash Reporter using this method. Sadly crashreporterd stops Crash Reporter from reporting Crash Reporter crashes :-)

By: Eric Albert

Eric Albert — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:17:35 +0000

You might want to file a separate bug for the pure virtual method problem, since the fix for that is probably different from the fix for the crash.