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

[kendell clark]

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


covici at 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 <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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