Hi, Kirk: I'm on Arch, not Debian, but I've had broken Espeakup ever since alsa-lib-1.2.5 showed up. Since then Espeakup has been upversioned to 0.90, but this has not fixed things for me, though apparently it has for Alexander now maintaning Espeakup. I currently have two functional Linux machines, both fully upgraded as of just about half an hour ago except as described below. The newer hardware will run by hand with the command: 'espeakup -d', but it's highly brittle and prone to crash the system so that a three finger salute is needed. If I want console access on this 2020 era box, I have to turn to fenrir, which I'm just not as comfortable with--but that's another story. My older machine is prevented by my /etc/pacman.conf from updating alsa-lib and espeakup, and it runs just fine. So, my suggestion is back off to the latest alsa-lib-1.2.4, and the latest espeakup-0.8 you have, and you should be fine until someone figures out what's really going on. For anyone running Arch you want the following in your /etc/pacman.conf: IgnorePkg =espeakup IgnorePkg =alsa-lib If you've already updated your Arch beyond these versions, you can downgrade. You'll find a cache of previous versions in: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Just cd on over there as root and check what you have with a command like: ls -1 alsa-lib* espeakup* You can then downversion with pacman like this: pacman -U ./[filename] where [filename] is the full name you got from ls. I recommend using the Speakup clipboard to get the command right. Best, Janina Kirk Reiser writes: > Hi folks: Does anyone have espeakup running on debian sid with > libasound2 1.2.5? After I upgraded a few days ago I lost my speech > output. I have built espeakup and espeak-ng from the current repo on > them with no joy either. > > Curious minds and all that type thing. > > Kirk > -- 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
