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

[covici at ccs.covici.com]

There is a thread on this subject in the speakup mailing list which you
might want to check out.

kendell clark <coffeekingms at 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
> 
> 
> 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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