A string that crashes text-to-speech

Originator:me
Number:rdar://11315586 Date Originated:24-Apr-2012 10:54 PM
Status:Duplicate/10628264 Resolved:
Product:Mac OS X Product Version:10.7.3 (11D50)
Classification:Crash/Hang/Data Loss Reproducible:Always
 
Ask text-to-speech to speak the string:

Boston Acoustics SE50 5-ΒΌ" 2-way Component System

(there's a 1/4 Unicode char there; in case the encoding is messed up, it's the title of this item on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Acoustics-frac14-Component-System/dp/B005C1RA3M )

and it immediately crashes. This crashes Delicious Library 2, along with TextEdit (and I presume any other app). Tested with "Alex" and "Bruce" voices.

Crash log is attached.

2012-04-24 10:44:33.953 PM sandboxd: ([11210]) TextEdit(11210) deny ipc-sysv-sem
2012-04-24 10:44:34.139 PM sandboxd: ([11210]) TextEdit(11210) deny iokit-open IOBluetoothSCOAudioDeviceCoreAudioPlugInUserClient
2012-04-24 10:44:34.180 PM sandboxd: ([11210]) TextEdit(11210) deny file-write-data /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SpeechDictionary.framework/Versions/A/Resources/TuplesEng
2012-04-24 10:44:34.183 PM [0x0-0x478478].com.apple.TextEdit: /SourceCache/SpeechSynthesis_MacInTalk/SpeechSynthesis-4.0.74/Synthesizers/MacinTalk/Sources/MTFEPOSResolver.cp:2576: failed assertion `selectedHomograph'
2012-04-24 10:44:35.709 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.506: ([0x0-0x478478].com.apple.TextEdit[11210]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap: 6
2012-04-24 10:44:35.936 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for TextEdit[11210] version 1.7 (289.3) to /Users/jonathon/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/TextEdit_2012-04-24-224435_Adamantium.crash

Comments

This no longer crashes (and is 'correctly' spoken) on 10.7.4.

By me at May 10, 2012, 10:29 p.m. (reply...)

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