speech-dispatcher/speechd-up problems after dist-upgrade on debian testing

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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Hello all.

I have 3 machines running debian testing lenny/sid, 2 are physical,
one is virtual running under virtualbox. I do apt-get update, and
apt-get dist-upgrade on all these machines once a week, usually on
Sunday.

After my most recent dist-upgrade this last Sunday, I am having
software speech issues on all 3 machines. I suspect the problem to be
somewhere in speech-dispatcher/speechd-up. I've ruled out speakup,
since speechd-up -p from the command-line exhibits the same abnormal behavior,
and my hardware synths are working with speakup just fine. Also, my
kernel wasn't touched during the upgrade. Speech-dispatcher, espeak,
and speechd-up were also not touched during the upgrade. I don't
remember the exact list of what was upgraded, but I do remember that
alsa packages were upgraded. Alsa is however not the problem, since
espeak by itself, and all other programs playing audio work fine.

The problem is hard to describe, but I'll do my best. If I type on the
command-line "espeak "Hello, it seems speechd-up works correctly."",
espeak speaks the text perfectly. If I type on the command-line
"speechd-up -p", I hear "lo ms speechd up works correctly".

If I am trying to use speakup with software speech, the best way to
describe what happens is that syllables seem to be "swallowed", and
there are frequent noticeable pauses in the speech. The
speech-dispatcher I'm using is from the debian testing archives:

speech-dispatcher 0.6.5

The espeak package  is also from the debian testing archives:

eSpeak text-to-speech: 1.30  31.Dec.07

The speechd-up package I'm using is from:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/speechd-up/speechd-up_0.4-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

speechd-up 0.1
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Brailcom, o.p.s.

I made no configuration changes to speech-dispatcher/speechd-up/espeak
before, or after the upgrade. Before the upgrade, things were working
perfectly, and after the upgrade they weren't. After the upgrade
itself, speech was normal. The problem started after the machines were
rebooted/speech-dispatcher was restarted. The output module I'm using is espeak, as opposed to
espeak-generic. I also have log files speechd.log, speechd-up.log, and
espeak.log made after the problem appeared. Speech-dispatcher, and
speechd-up were set to log at level 5 when these log files were
produced. If there's someone who could look at these, in an attempt to
figure out the problem, (that would be someone from braillecom I
suspect), please let me know, and I can send all 3 files to you
privately. If any other information is needed, please let me know. If
someone already knows of a fix for this problem, please let me know
also. Thanks.

Greg


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