Speak has garbage sound on latest Soas then crashes

[NoiseEHC]

Speak has garbage sound on latest Soas appliances with VirtualBox (20090524 and 20090528), if I change something (like the mouth) then it fixes the sound for a small time then it becomes garbage again.
Then it crashes with this:

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead

import sha

1243646011.870168 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.
1243646011.885295 WARNING root: No gtk.AccelGroup in the top level window.

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/graphics/window.py:120: GtkWarning: gtk_container_remove: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (container)

widget->parent == GTK_WIDGET (container)' failed

self._vbox.remove(self.toolbox)

(sugar-activity:1799): DEBUG: Got client ID "10e842a8948e72b2eb124364601226111800000016640001"
(sugar-activity:1799): DEBUG: Setting initial properties
(sugar-activity:1799): DEBUG: Received SaveYourself(SmSaveLocal, !Shutdown, SmInteractStyleNone, !Fast) in state idle
(sugar-activity:1799): DEBUG: Sending SaveYourselfDone(True) for initial SaveYourself
(sugar-activity:1799): DEBUG: Received SaveComplete message in state save-yourself-done
python: pcm_pulse.c:361: pulse_write: Assertion `pcm->stream' failed.
Best voice for LANG en_US.UTF-8 seems to be en Default

[FGrose]

This occurs for me with soas-strawberry-vdi in VirtualBox2.2.4 on a Jackalope64 host. On a Vista32 host I had no sound.

[RafaelOrtiz]

this seems like a problem of the gst-plugins-espeak plugin for gstreamer or something related to gstreamer ?

[alsroot]

for me it looks like pulseaudio issue, it could be checked by removing pulse from system and using pure alsa

[alsroot]

ping,
does it still fail with v12?
​http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4038

[alsroot]

dup of #1140

[sascha_silbe]

Bulk change distribution=SoaS -> component=SoaS