Alex: I regret to advise it's NOT working on my newest hardware running Arch fully updated via Syu today, 21 August. janina@minuet 07:58:59 ~$yay -Q alsa-lib pcaudiolib espeak-ng espeak-ng-espeak espeakup alsa-lib 1.2.5.1-3 pcaudiolib 1.2-2 espeak-ng 1.50-4 espeak-ng-espeak 1.50-4 espeakup 0.90-1 I have confirmed my audio devices can aplay without problems, but no joy from espeakup. I will leave the above as reported just in case you'd like more info or in case you'd like me to try something specific. However, I will need to return this system to a working state by Sunday evening. Best, Janina Samuel Thibault writes: > Alexander Epaneshnikov, le ven. 20 août 2021 18:26:06 +0300, a ecrit: > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:56:17PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > 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 > > On Debian it works fine, yes, but only after restarting espeakup. > > Samuel -- 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