Hi, Frank: Yours truly successfully upgraded both espeakup and speech-dispatcher to use espeak-ng just a couple weeks ago. It was not a smooth upgrade, but it was ultimately very successful and I'm fully functional with snappy performance from both Speakup and Orca, to say nothing of Fenrir--which is worth a look in your copious spare time. Always good to have a backup screen reader around, but I digress. I mentioned issues upgrading to use espeak-ng. I knew I'd need to use espeakup-git and speech-dispatcher-git for that, both of which had compile issues on my system. I was helped y bdier Spaier on the Orca list. Head of email thread for that conversation is at: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2018-July/msg00052.html BTW: Dieder has released a grub handling script that looks really useful in the past several days: https://github.com/DidierSpaier/EFI3M If I understand the above, it mods grub to play a unique tune for each grub entry on boot. And, the script itself allows reordering grub entries, or creating a bootable USB. hth Janina Frank Carmickle writes: > Hi all, > > For a very long time now I’ve been operating with a then Jessie, now Stretch, VMware Fusion virtual machine as my main everyday Linux box. I have a need for some things in sid and so I thought I’d update another vm image that I had kicking around. Both of these images, built from very different install media, and with lots of time in between, I had held the following packages, due to speech just stopping, requiring to restart espeakup. > > espeak1.48.04+dfsg-5 > espeak-data:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5 > espeakup1:0.80-1 > libespeak1:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5 > espeak-data:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5 > espeakup1:0.80-1 > libasound2:amd641.1.1-2 > libasound2-data1.1.1-2 > libespeak1:amd641.48.04+dfsg-5 > > I’m trying to remember exactly why I had held libasound back also. I believe that it was due to sluggishness in flushing the audio buffer, not being able to stop speech quickly enough. > > Last week I decided to unhold these packages on a sid system and I found that things still hadn’t improved. I am finding it hard to believe that this would be happening to everyone. Does anyone have any ideas? I see nothing in the logs and it doesn’t appear that espeakup is crashing. It is happening with both espeak and espeak-ng current in sid. > > Thank you very much for any ideas. > —FC > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
