On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:10:07PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote: > Dear Chuck, > > You missed some discussion on this a few weeks ago. > > To sum up, it’s a Portaudio bug which has been noticed thanks to an Alsa upgrade, and there is a temporary workaround. All you need to do is edit “espeakup.service,” or create a drop-in snippet. In the [Service] section, put the line > Environment=LIBASOUND_THREAD_SAFE=0 > > Case is important here, and the way I did it was to just do “sudo systemctl edit espeakup.service.” I hope this helps. > Best, > Zack. > > On Aug 31, 2016, at 12:01 PM, Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckhallenbeck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've been away for some time, but have just resubscribed. > > I currently use ArchLinux on a Dell Optiplex 780, refurbished, from Amazon. > > Also still stubbornly using only command line interface, > > just can't warm up to a GUI. > > > > I'm Currently having an issue involving random failures of speech, > > and am able to restore speech by issuing two systemctl commands, > > one to stop espeakup.service, and the next to start it again. > > How can I get further information to narrow the problem down to > > espeakup, or speakup, or espeak? Recovery from the failures is reliable, > > but I'd rather find and fix the cause. > > > > Chuck > > > > > > -- > > Willoughby Ohio > > Temperature 75�F > > Conditions Light Rain > > The Moon is New > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Willoughby Ohio Temperature 75�F Conditions Overcast Dear Zach, I applied the steps you suggested, which resulted in the creation of the file: /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service.d/override.conf with the single line you indicated should be added. However, I still get the speech failures, even after rebooting. Have I overlooked something? Chuck The Moon is New
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