Here are my thoughts in regards to your scouting of your opponents base:
eyeball the amount of workers, harass of this magnitude (depending on how many rax) can be easily identified. The fewer the workers mining minerals (typically) the more all-in it will be (cutting workers for more barracks) I suggest drone scouting (especially if they scout you off the 9depot completion) an early gas can be deceiving, is it banshee play, is it quick tank, etc, I would say if you see an early refinery and only one barracks, stick around as long as you can to find the factory(gas first builds allow for the factory to be made basically immediately after the rax finishes), if no factory, man the anti-cheese guns and sound the alarm. look for the proxy barracks, the sooner you find them and attack them the more pressure they have to lift them (and thus set them behind, a barracks that was invested in, but not being utilized is a dead investment, which is why you'll see some people block the ramp with two barracks and put the third barracks in their base somewhere) Once you've identified its a reaper harass/all in situation, I recommend putting a spine at each hatchery. Just one each, a lot of expand builds afford two at the natural anyways. If this is not your preferred course of action, immediately begin the path of teching for zergling speed. speedlings do great against reapers and limit the harass potential by a shit load.
For widow mine: what can really be said here? Dont move the whole group of lings/units mindlessly, this same action costs terran whole armies against banelings. put a couple in front to tank the mines, if you see one, you obviously need to tech to lair immediately, or, drop spores in the base. Some people have suggested sending overlords to your preferred path in other discussions. (they do a great job of eating mines as well) what I'm assuming is happening here, is that the reapers are giving terran a lot of map control and you get defensive and never take it back. Once you get speedlings its your job to take that back by spreading overlords,creep, and getting the watch towers with your excess lings,
Best of luck
edit- girlfriends computer has autocorrect, just looking for typos, yes I know I didnt get them all 
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Considering the gas investment and the reaper build time, and then the necessity of following it up with widow mines, I think building ~5-6 roaches and then taking a 3rd and droning for quite a while is an adequate response. Your opponent will not be able to be aggressive for a long time. All his investment is in units that aren't great against roaches, and can't attack. Meanwhile he has to get his economy up, probably by going 3-4 CC. Just deal with it, expand asap, and drone massively.
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