Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

[James Simmons]

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incorrect and out of date.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