I'll give it another try over the weekend and report. I do see I'm missing espeak-ng-espeak, so maybe I'm missing a symlink or two. Didn't see that one before. Janina Alexander Epaneshnikov writes: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:56:17PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Hello, > > > > As an additional datapoint: in Debian the upgrade of alsa-lib to 1.2.5.1 > > disturbs the espeakup output. Not completely broken, but distorted > > enough that you'll rather reboot to get back normal speech. I could > > capture some warnings, reported on > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992537 > > Hopefully they will have ideas. > > don't know if it's helpful info. but on arch linux espeakup 0.90 works fine > with: alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3, pcaudiolib 1.2-2 and espeak-ng 1.50-4 > > maybe espeakup or espeak-ng should be rebuilt? > > > Samuel > > -- > Sincerely, Alexander -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa