Re: Choppy speech when using espeak and espeakup on a Raspberry Pi

[Sukil Etxenike arizaleta <sukiletxe@yahoo.es>]

Hi,

So... This is a bit embarrasing. As you might know, Raspberry Pi OS 
changes its major version some months after Debian, as I'm writing this 
it hasn't changed its major version yet. But you can update its 
packages' repositories to get them from the next version. So, after 
doing a backup I did so and... no more choppy espeak nor espeakup. So, 
either wait, or change bullseye for bookworm everywhere in 
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list and /etc/apt/sources.list .

An important note, though: now espeak-ng refuses to say anything if I 
use it from the command line if espeakup is running first (killing 
espeakup then restarting it lets me use them at the same time). Any 
guidance to fix this would be appreciated, though I must admit this is 
less important to me than the choppy speech (which, as I said, got fixed 
after updating).

Thanks,

Sukil


El 07/08/2023 a las 18:47, K0LNY escribió:
> I remember that problem in windows.
> I installed eSpeak to use with Jaws and it was really choppy.
> I didn't know it had gotten fixed.
> The choppy speech in RaspberryPI is pretty bad.
> I don't think the problem occurs in Arch, such as Stormux.
>
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sukil Etxenike arizaleta" <sukiletxe@yahoo.es>
> To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 7, 2023 1:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Choppy speech when using espeak and espeakup on a Raspberry Pi
>
>
> Hello,
>
> There was an issue with stuttering on Windows:
> <https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1190> which got fixed
> (but no new versions were released afterwards). I created an issue, it
> is at <https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1781>.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sukil
>
>
> El 07/08/2023 a las 1:22, Samuel Thibault escribió:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sukil Etxenike arizaleta, le sam. 05 août 2023 19:10:17 +0200, a ecrit:
> > > I am experiencing choppy speech when running espeakup and also when
> > > running espeak on its own, but not when generating wave files and
> > > playing them with aplay.
> > I'd say this should be discussed with upstream espeak-ng,
> > https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues
> >
> > Samuel