-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have found that making a minor change to espeak-generic.conf works better with espeak version 1.16 and also keeps espeak from having to create a temp file. Note that this is only tested with espeak 1.16, so may not work on earlier versions, but definitely test. There is a line in espeak-generic.conf that says something like "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin -w /tmp/speak.wav | aplay /tmp/speak.wav" I have changed my espeak-generic.conf to say: "echo \"$DATA\" | speak -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME -p $PITCH --stdin --stdout |play -t wav -" Sorry, but I haven't gotten it to work with aplay yet. Not only does this get rid of the temp file, but performance of espeak 1.16 is greatly improved, since there seems to be some sort of slowdown compaired with previous versions of espeak when writing to the temp file. Using the temp file method, I was getting strange problems like the first part of the speech being the same as what was previously spoken followed by a switch in the middle to the end of what was supposed to be newly spoken. The stdout method fixes this. Hth someone, Lorenzo - -- I've always found anomalies to be very relaxing. It's a curse. - --Jadzia Dax: Star Trek Deep Space Nine (The Assignment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFIzAXG9IpekrhBfIRAnzZAJ9f/0u7SiL1/57UC2nwbLcsoVsndACdF6O8 xykgGRgZ7vds0HuLYZ+ihX4= =Xx7P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
