There is a thread on this subject in the speakup mailing list which you might want to check out.
kendell clark <coffeekin...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi > I've got alsa-lib 1.1.2 and I don't have any problems with espeak. Then > again, I'm using espeak ng, the fork that reece dunn made and not espeak > itself. But either way, I can confirm that the espeak driver does start > and then stop speaking immediately, so something's definitely wrong > somewhere. I'm a co developer of the sonar linux distro for people with > all kinds of disabilities so I've been trying for a while to get brltty > working as a console screen reader. > Thanks > Kendell Clark > > > cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > If you have alsalib-1.1.2 you may be in trouble with espeak. I would > > downgrade to 1.1.1 and see if that helps. > > > > Sebastian Humenda <shume...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> Since today, BRLTTY (or rather the espeak driver I've configured) stops > >> talking > >> after a few minutes (1-3) when using BRLTTY. Braille still works fine. To > >> figure > >> out what the cause might be, I searched through the list of packages > >> installed > >> yesterday, but brltty, espeak, linux and pulse were left untouched (I have > >> had issues with pulse before and that was my first guess). Other > >> applications > >> using ALSA still play sound fine. > >> > >> I downgraded BRLTTY to 5.3.1-1 and compiled the latest code from the > >> repository, > >> but I do get the same behaviour. That makes me think that something in the > >> environment must have changed. > >> I now tried out the speechd-backend and this one works fine, which is a > >> temporary solution. > >> > >> With logging level 7, I was not able to see any issue. Could you please > >> give me > >> pointers how to proceed from here? > >> > >> Thanks > >> Sebastian > >> -- > >> Web: http://www.crustulus.de (English|Deutsch) | Blog: > >> http://www.crustulus.de/blog > >> FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionaries - http://www.freedict.org > >> Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html > >> _______________________________________________ > >> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > >> To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > >> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
