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From: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
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Subject: you really do not want to upgrade to alsa-lib 1.1.2
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:40:24 -0700
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So alsa-lib 1.1.2 breaks a couple things that use espeak,
notably both espeakup and the espeak speech server for emacspeak.
You'll start to have lockups after a bit of use.
Here's what little I have been able to piece together so far.

http://the-brannons.com/alsa-espeak.txt

-- Chris