[Bugs] #1535 UNSP: Speak-11 cannot allocate memory

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#1535: Speak-11 cannot allocate memory
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    Reporter:  tabitha                    |          Owner:  jminor                     
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Speak                      |        Version:  0.82.x                     
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  OLPC                       |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by tony37):

 I have also experienced this problem not only with speak but with an
 alternative version (botspeak) that I worked earlier this year. Speak
 writes text to a temporary file and then issues a subprocess call to start
 espeak. The size of the alice.brn does not leave enough memory to start
 espeak so that speak is speechless.

 It would be desirable to modify Speak to use gstream as does the ReadEText
 activity. This was the original intent of the developer. This would
 eliminate the need to launch espeak as a separate process.

 In addition, the alice.brn should be pruned. Alice is a robot developed
 over many years to respond to queries from adults. It is also has a lot of
 culture-specific content. I haven't had a chance to look to see if this is
 done, but it is important to unload robots that are not selected to free
 up the memory.

 Clearly this is not a problem for the XO 1.5 or the SoaS environment.

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