ESpeak speech synthesizer dies continuesly with Speakup latest version...

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
There are some problem with espeak on amd 64 machines.
A patch has been submitted to the Author to fix this.
HTH, Willem


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, keithint38 at commspeed.net wrote:

> Hello, I am running a Gentoo Linux AMD sixty four bit server with kernel
> two point six point one nine kernel, SMP enabled, suspend-to-disk enabled,
> Advanced power management enabled, runs quite nicely.
> That is, it runs fine untill I use ESpeak as a speech-synthesizer with
> Speakup.
> 
> In general, I've noticed that the ESpeak synthesizer will dye if I
> rappidly type something into the machine. For example:
> Ifconfig Eth0 192.1.. and suddenly, the ESpeak Executable will stop
> responding. I have attempted using Speech-Dispatcher and Speechd-up at
> nice -20, but have also experienced this crash of the ESpeak executable
> directly. Speech-Dispatcher and Speechd-up are no longer the causeof this
> problem.
> It is the ESpeak executable, any suggestions? I do not know why it simply
> dies. Regards, --Keith
> 
> 
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> 

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