Re: espeakup stops speaking bookworm arm64

[Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com>]

Greetings,

I've been living with this for the last sixish months, and it's annoying. I have a console where I can just up arrow and hit enter for

`killall -1 espeakup`

I would love to see this get fixed but I've gotten nowhere with debugging it.

I haven't tried Sam's recommendation of having a middle layer of pulseaudio or pipewire to keep the audio buffer always full with silence when it's not speaking. I spent so much time trying to get a working machine before, that I've not wanted to go back to work on it again for a bit. I'll probably get to it when the kids go back to school in a few weeks time.

I'll let you know if I find it to be of help.

--FC

> On Aug 17, 2023, at 13:48, Geoff Shang <geoff@QuiteLikely.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just updated to Bookworm on my work VM running under VMWare 17 under Windows 11 and am experiencing the same problem.
> 
> This was not happening under Bullseye.
> 
> The only other thing that I can add to what has already been described in this thread is that using conventional Debian methods to stop the espeakup process takes a long time.  Running espeakup in debug mode doesn't print anything to the console, and when I lose speech, I have to press control-backslash to kill it (control-c doesn't work).
> 
> I've only just seen the suggestion to test with the debug versions, which I will try at some point soon.
> 
> I'm running just in the console, no desktop environments.
> 
> BTW: I was just proofing this message and it died.  I was cursoring down through this email, so I wasn't reviewing by character this time.
> 
> Cheers,
> Geoff.
> 
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