What is wrong with espeakup in testing?

[Doug Smith <romans10.9@minister.com>]

Hi.  I just fired up a new kali linux system here and I have a real 
puvver of a problem.  For some reason, even with the speakup_soft module 
loaded I cannot get espeakup to work.


I just looked into it and found that something is wrong with espeak in 
debian testing.  It is version 1.8.something, I cannot be sure right 
now.  It won't even install correctly when uninstalled and reinstalled 
in order to see what happened.  The package won't install and I missed 
why because I was only able at the time to preserve part of the error 
message on my terminal.


I wonder if this is in kali only or if it is in debian testing. Since 
they pull their packages from testing, I wonder if it would be ok for 
someone to check out that package and find out what's wrong with it.  I 
have orca working perfectly on this system, but I cannot seem to get 
espeak going because of this bug.




Thanks.





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