[BRLTTY] No speech using eSpeak

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2020/11/21 at 09:18 +0100]

>Following the call for testing the latest master before the 6.2 release, I
>built BRLTTY for my machine and also tried the package uploaded by Samuel.
>In both versions, the speech driver cannot emit sound, the logs are attached:
>brl.log contains the log using `brltty -s es -k laptop -l speech `, the other
>contains the output as found in syslog when invoking BRLTTY as a system
>service (brl-systemd.log).
>The systemd output shows ALSA error messages and German messages such as:
>"Das Gerät oder die Resource ist belegt" translating to "Device or resource busy".

On the surfce, it looks like ALSA misconfiguration. I rather doubt that brltty
can do much about it. Have you tried eSpeak-NG (-s en)?

>A previous built of 6.1 and the packaged 5.6 release on Debian work fine.

On the very same host system? If so, can you try to determine which commit
broke it?

I just tried -s es here, and it's working so I'm not able to reproduce it. Are
you using ALSA itself or are you using Pulse Audio?

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