Re: espeakup stops speaking D-i bookworm amd64 on 11gen Lenovo Carbon X1
Hi Tom,
On May 28, 2024, at 08:40, Tom Moore <tommym2006@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have noticed Speakup being unstable on Arm64 as well.
> This seems to be limited to this arch from what I can tell.
> Amd64 works fine.
> One thing I notice is that the first 10th of a second or so the speech
> cuts off.
> For example when reading by character half of the character is not
> spoken by speakup.
>
> My exact setup is a Vmware fusion guest on an m2 pro based mac.
I noticed this behavior also, specifically with VMware. I do not believe this is a bug with espeakup, as the performance with qemu arm64 is fantastic, a part from this long standing issue of speech stopping.
--FC
>
> Tom
>
> On 2024-05-26, Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi.
>> I was installing on a 11th gen Lenovo Carbon X1 last night, and against
>> my typical practice I decided to try D-I.
>> I ran into something that looks a lot like the espeakup hangs that
>> people have been struggling with on arm64.
>>
>> I was using the 12.5 netinst iso for amd64.
>> The installer would speak for a while and then suddenly stop.
>>
>> If I dropped to a shell on ctrl-alt-f2 and then killed `pidof espeakup`
>> and restarted espeakup, things would continue.
>> Interestingly after I restarted espeakup it tended to get more stable.
>>
>> I was more interested in installing my system (after which I do not
>> typically use espeakup much) than in debugging.
>> However it is easy enough for me to reproduce.
>> Unfortunately, d-i isn't the greatest environment for debugging
>> something like this.
>>
>> I thought it was interesting because if the problem is broader than
>> arm64, it might be easier to approach.
>>
>> --Sam
>>
>>
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