Re: Latest Speech-Dispatcher breaks all speech
Hello Jeffery,
The solution is changing line
DefaultModule espeak
to
DefaultModule espeak-ng
in /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf
after upgrading speech-dispatcher and espeak(-ng).
I also added a line
AddModule "espeak-n" "sd_espeak-ng" "espeak-ng.conf"
but it does not seem to be really required.
Regards
-Klaus
On 19.01.17, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> Hello Jeffery,
>
> I'm in the progress of getting Knoppix 8.0 ready for release on CeBIT,
> including ADRIANE.
>
> So far, I have not hit the speech-dispatcher problem yet, since the
> package is usually kept on "hold". speech-dispatcher has a bad history
> of breakage, and till 2014-something, I used a self-compiled package
> instead of the "official" one to stay away from unwanted updates. I'll
> have a look on espeak-ng, but frankly, I do tend to put more packages on
> "hold" that are working right now and should NOT be replaced by a "next
> generation" version, that stops speech working.
>
> I'll let you know the results. Maybe there are configuration changes
> ahead in order to keep the package upgradable. This already happened
> when the speech-dispatcher team decided not to run speech-dispatcher as
> a system-wide service, but as per-process service, which frequently
> blocked the sound device, so I had to revert the configuration to the
> old behavior with some tricks.
>
> So far, I can only recommend not touching speech-dispatcher and espeak
> until the new version is stable. Keep it on "hold" in the package
> manager.
>
> Regards
> -Klaus
>
> On 16.01.17, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
> > My apologies if this question would be more appropriate on the forums
> > than the mailing list, but I've forgotten my password, the password
> > reset page uses a vision test in place of a turing test, and I have
> > neither a monitor nor a sighted person to assist me.
> >
> > Anyways, I'm running a customized Adriane-Knoppix based on a Hard
> > drive install of the latest DVD iso(7.7.1 if I remember correctly).
> > Most of my customizations fall into the "sudo apt-get purge stuff i
> > don't need" category with most of my installed software sourced from
> > Debian testing with the occasional dip into Unstable.
> >
> > A recent upgrade for Speech-dispatcher and
> > speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins came out that breaks all speech, both
> > from SBL and from Orca on my system, if not all sound, with at least
> > one further upgrade since then that doesn't fix the issue. Best I can
> > tell, speech is lost as soon as Aptitude finishes downloading and
> > starts installing the upgrade, and I've found nothing short of
> > restoring a backup image of my root partition restores speech.
> > Aptitude marks about half a dozen packages as orphaned dependencies
> > when I mark Speech-dispatcher and speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins for
> > upgrade, but the problem persists even when I tell Aptitude to keep
> > these packages.
> >
> > I suspect the problem might be related to an attempt to phase out
> > espeak in favor of espeak-ng as the last working version of
> > speech-dispatcher or an upgrade shortly before that forced
> > installation of espeak-ng-data, but I'm not familiar enough with what
> > my accessibility software is doing under the hood to know for sure.
> >
> > Things are working fine at the moment, and I've yet to run into other
> > packages pushing out upgrades that either break the older speech
> > dispatcher or force its upgrade, but it bugs me to know a newer
> > version of a package is readily available and being unable to try it
> > out without rendering my system unusable, so any help in resolving
> > this issue would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Jeffery Wright
> > Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
> > President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
> > Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
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