Retraction: My espeak 1.44.05 is also broken.

Retraction: My espeak 1.44.05 is also broken.

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi,

On Friday I commented that my new copy of espeak 1.44.05 was working
normally, as indeed it was at the time. But I had not restarted my
computer since updating to that version a couple of days earlier. On
Saturday, a new kernel was available from the arch mirrors, and after
obtaining it, I then rebooted. 

Guess what? My espeak is now broken too, misbehaving worse in some
applications than in others, but definitely difficult to use. I'm
switching to my doubletalk lt for the time being.

Chuck

-- 
The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full)
                My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net
        Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com
        My Jabber ID: chuckh1@jabber.org (beware the silent h!)
                                --------
Some people claim that the Linux learning curve is steep, but at least you
only have to climb it once.

Re: Retraction: My espeak 1.44.05 is also broken.

[Steve Holmes]

Yeah, I'm still using espeak but downgraded to 1.44.02 and have it
blocked from any future upgrades until it gets fixed.  I sure wish I
could use serial ports for my speakout but we've already been down
that road <sigh>.  I can use serial ports for other things but not
with Speakup.

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 05:39:03PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday I commented that my new copy of espeak 1.44.05 was working
> normally, as indeed it was at the time. But I had not restarted my
> computer since updating to that version a couple of days earlier. On
> Saturday, a new kernel was available from the arch mirrors, and after
> obtaining it, I then rebooted. 
> 
> Guess what? My espeak is now broken too, misbehaving worse in some
> applications than in others, but definitely difficult to use. I'm
> switching to my doubletalk lt for the time being.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> -- 
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full)
>                 My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net
>         Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com
>         My Jabber ID: chuckh1@jabber.org (beware the silent h!)
>                                 --------
> Some people claim that the Linux learning curve is steep, but at least you
> only have to climb it once.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Retraction: My espeak 1.44.05 is also broken.

[Kyle]

  I can confirm eSpeak problems here. I just installed Ubuntu Maverick 
beta, and it ships with eSpeak 1.44.04 currently. Punctuations, 
especially commas, seem to make the pitch go crazy, and punctuation 
pauses, such as for periods, seem to be of arbitrary short length or 
nonexistant

~Kyle.