Yeah, I'm still using espeak but downgraded to 1.44.02 and have it blocked from any future upgrades until it gets fixed. I sure wish I could use serial ports for my speakout but we've already been down that road <sigh>. I can use serial ports for other things but not with Speakup. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:39:03PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday I commented that my new copy of espeak 1.44.05 was working > normally, as indeed it was at the time. But I had not restarted my > computer since updating to that version a couple of days earlier. On > Saturday, a new kernel was available from the arch mirrors, and after > obtaining it, I then rebooted. > > Guess what? My espeak is now broken too, misbehaving worse in some > applications than in others, but definitely difficult to use. I'm > switching to my doubletalk lt for the time being. > > Chuck > > -- > The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full) > My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net > Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com > My Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org (beware the silent h!) > -------- > Some people claim that the Linux learning curve is steep, but at least you > only have to climb it once. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup