Espeak strangness

Lorenzo Taylor lorenzo at taylor.homelinux.net
Wed Oct 4 08:57:39 EDT 2006


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According to Jonathan Duddington:
# Does the problem only happen in the interactive mode where you start by
# typing
#   speak
# followed immediately by Return ?

Actually no.  It occurs anywhere that a line of text starts with a
punctuation such as a : or , by itself, only that line is to be spoken
and portaudio19 is being used.  In other words, the problem doesn't
occur when reading a text file either using speak -f or via a pipe such
as cat file|speak.  It also doesn't occur if portaudio19 isn't being
used, such as when a wav file is created or speech output is sent to
stdout.

Here are some test lines that will reproduce the problem both on the
speak command line as well as via its standard input:

: hello
? How are you?
, testing eSpeak
! eSpeak rocks!

Just put any of these lines in quotes on the command line or run speak
and type the line.  Either way, eSpeak returns to the command prompt
without speaking when using portaudio19.

HTH,
Lorenzo
- -- 
I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse.
- --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment)
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