I had similar problems on sid after updating to libasound2 version 1.0.16-1. I went back to 1.0.15-3 for now.
Best regards, Lukas
Gregory Nowak writes ("Re: speech-dispatcher/speechd-up problems after dist-upgrade on debian testing"):
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> Hello again.
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> I just tried with flite as the output module, and while the problem is
> still there, flite seems to be dealing with it a bit better than espeak,
> because the problem isn't immediately obvious with flite, whereas it
> is immediately obvious with espeak. What this means in practice is
> that while not perfect, software speech is useable to a degree with
> flite, but not with espeak. This does definitely rule out
> espeak though, and narrows the problem down to speech-dispatcher or
> speechd-up.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:02:06PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I have 3 machines running debian testing lenny/sid, 2 are physical,
> > one is virtual running under virtualbox. I do apt-get update, and
> > apt-get dist-upgrade on all these machines once a week, usually on
> > Sunday.
> >
> > After my most recent dist-upgrade this last Sunday, I am having
> > software speech issues on all 3 machines. I suspect the problem to be
> > somewhere in speech-dispatcher/speechd-up. I've ruled out speakup,
> > since speechd-up -p from the command-line exhibits the same abnormal behavior,
> > and my hardware synths are working with speakup just fine. Also, my
> > kernel wasn't touched during the upgrade. Speech-dispatcher, espeak,
> > and speechd-up were also not touched during the upgrade. I don't
> > remember the exact list of what was upgraded, but I do remember that
> > alsa packages were upgraded. Alsa is however not the problem, since
> > espeak by itself, and all other programs playing audio work fine.
> >
> > The problem is hard to describe, but I'll do my best. If I type on the
> > command-line "espeak "Hello, it seems speechd-up works correctly."",
> > espeak speaks the text perfectly. If I type on the command-line
> > "speechd-up -p", I hear "lo ms speechd up works correctly".
> >
> > If I am trying to use speakup with software speech, the best way to
> > describe what happens is that syllables seem to be "swallowed", and
> > there are frequent noticeable pauses in the speech. The
> > speech-dispatcher I'm using is from the debian testing archives:
> >
> > speech-dispatcher 0.6.5
> >
> > The espeak package is also from the debian testing archives:
> >
> > eSpeak text-to-speech: 1.30 31.Dec.07
> >
> > The speechd-up package I'm using is from:
> >
> > http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/speechd-up/speechd-up_0.4-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
> >
> > speechd-up 0.1
> > Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Brailcom, o.p.s.
> >
> > I made no configuration changes to speech-dispatcher/speechd-up/espeak
> > before, or after the upgrade. Before the upgrade, things were working
> > perfectly, and after the upgrade they weren't. After the upgrade
> > itself, speech was normal. The problem started after the machines were
> > rebooted/speech-dispatcher was restarted. The output module I'm using is espeak, as opposed to
> > espeak-generic. I also have log files speechd.log, speechd-up.log, and
> > espeak.log made after the problem appeared. Speech-dispatcher, and
> > speechd-up were set to log at level 5 when these log files were
> > produced. If there's someone who could look at these, in an attempt to
> > figure out the problem, (that would be someone from braillecom I
> > suspect), please let me know, and I can send all 3 files to you
> > privately. If any other information is needed, please let me know. If
> > someone already knows of a fix for this problem, please let me know
> > also. Thanks.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
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