[HEADS-UP part 2] Please test Re: Speech overlapping with espeak-ng

[Al Sten-Clanton]

When do you need test results by?  Is it tomorrow, the 26th?  Thanks!

AlOn 01/23/2017 09:36 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Sebastian's tests and reports (we ended up recording what was
> produced with his audio setup), I could track and find what I believe
> was the bug.
>
> So, can people please test libespeak-ng1 version 1.49.0+dfsg-7 which
> should be available within a few hours?  You can use the unstable
> versions of espeakup (1:0.80-5) and brltty (5.4-6), do not use the
> experimental versions which introduce a delay which is actually
> spurious.
>
> I hope this time it'll be good enough for Stretch :)
>
> The technical details are in
> https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/172#issuecomment-274682363
> Basically, espeak used to close/reopen the audio card, which espeak-ng
> didn't, and some drivers or cards or something else doesn't really flush
> data if that's not done.
>
> I have to apologize to Kirk notably, it seems that depending on audio
> setups there indeed was real overlapping, not only ears glitches :)
>
> Samuel
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