Ignore any errors from espeak (current olpc os19/20/21 have three), trying to catch them borks the espeak process at 50-99% cpu busy on XO-1.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/speaker.py b/speaker.py
index bec926b..03c7275 100755
--- a/speaker.py
+++ b/speaker.py
@@ -57,9 +57,7 @@ class Speaker:
         text = text.replace("\"", "\\\"")
         child = os.popen("espeak -p%s -s%s -g%s -v%s \"%s\"" % (Speaker.PITCH, Speaker.SPEED, Speaker.WORD_GAP, Speaker.VOICE, text))
         data = child.read()
-        err = child.close()
-        if err:
-            print "espeak terminated with return code %d" % err
+        child.close()
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":