espeakup stops speaking

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Frank:

Yours truly successfully upgraded both espeakup and speech-dispatcher to
use espeak-ng just a couple weeks ago. It was not a smooth upgrade, but
it was ultimately very successful and I'm fully functional with snappy
performance from both Speakup and Orca, to say nothing of Fenrir--which
is worth a look in your copious spare time. Always good to have a backup
screen reader around, but I digress.

I mentioned issues upgrading to use espeak-ng. I knew I'd need to use
espeakup-git and speech-dispatcher-git for that, both of which had
compile issues on my system. I was helped y bdier Spaier on the Orca
list. Head of email thread for that conversation is at:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2018-July/msg00052.html

BTW: Dieder has released a grub handling script that looks really useful
in the past several days:

https://github.com/DidierSpaier/EFI3M

If I understand the above, it mods grub to play a unique tune for each
grub entry on boot. And, the script itself allows reordering grub
entries, or creating a bootable USB.

hth

Janina

Frank Carmickle writes:
> Hi all,
> 
> For a very long time now I’ve been operating with a then Jessie, now Stretch, VMware Fusion virtual machine as my main everyday Linux box. I have a need for some things in sid and so I thought I’d update another vm image that I had kicking around. Both of these images, built from very different install media, and with lots of time in between, I had held the following packages, due to speech just stopping, requiring to restart espeakup.
> 
> espeak1.48.04+dfsg-5
> espeak-data:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5
> espeakup1:0.80-1
> libespeak1:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5
> espeak-data:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5
> espeakup1:0.80-1
> libasound2:amd641.1.1-2
> libasound2-data1.1.1-2
> libespeak1:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5
> 
> I’m trying to remember exactly why I had held libasound back also. I believe that it was due to sluggishness in flushing the audio buffer, not being able to stop speech quickly enough.
> 
> Last week I decided to unhold these packages on a sid system and I found that things still hadn’t improved. I am finding it hard to believe that this would be happening to everyone. Does anyone have any ideas? I see nothing in the logs and it doesn’t appear that espeakup is crashing. It is happening with both espeak and espeak-ng current in sid.
> 
> Thank you very much for any ideas.
> —FC
> 
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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa