[BRLTTY] espeak driver stops speaking shortly after BRLTTY is started

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

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 <shumenda at 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
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