Flushing issue (was: So, where'd the volume controls get to?)

[Kirk Reiser]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Ok but isn't it getting interrupted by the next key press also very
> fast?

It does interrupt quickly but there is previously spoken speech that
gets jammed against the new speech.

> Making the rate to 9 and running less on a long text, then keeping the
> down key pressed, I do get gibberish speech indeed, since it basically
> tries to speak the first words of each line very fast before the next
> key press switches to the next line. But what else would be expected?

You do want to hear it speak fast but new speech not old and new
scrunched together. I don't feel I'm doing a good job of describing
it.

>> the libespeak library as reported by ldd is:
>>
>> libespeak.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libespeak.so.1 (0x00007f6298
>
> That is not precise enough, that has never changed since the espeak
> times. The last version of espeak-ng I'm aware of is 1.50.

Okay, the espeakup I'm using isn't using espeak-ng at all. It's using:

libespeak1:amd64                       1.48.04+dfsg-9

   Kirk
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