Speech problem upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty.

[David Sugar]

I also found a problem with the espeak (portaudio) backend with pulse
audio in 9.04 "speaking too fast", although since I did not try it on
prior releases I did not know if this was a new problem or not.  Since I
found that audio playback was accelerated to the point where it was
unintelligible on my particular machine, I do not know if it was also
clipping portions of the audio.  On the other hand, the festival backend
did work correctly for me on 9.04 and with reasonable clarity.  I am
aware that festival has less languages available than espeak.

The symptom you describe is in launchpad as #344534.  The garbled audio
is discussed in several places, particularly in #354522, where someone
experimented with bypassing portaudio, which is the backend espeak uses
in Ubuntu, and there are I gathered some issues in the current release
of portaudio over the older release of portaudio found in Intrepid.

Fabrizio Marini wrote:
> 
> --- Messaggio originale ---
> Da: "Fabrizio Marini" <fabrizio at people.it>
> A: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Data: 17/05/2009 21.22.17
> Oggetto: Speech problem upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty.
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> 
> 
> --- Messaggio originale ---
> Da: "Fabrizio Marini" <erbizionostro at tiscali.it>
> A: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com.
> Data: 16/05/2009 12.58.41
> Oggetto: Sound problem upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty.
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> Hi everybody!
> I'm a blind user of Ubuntu with Orca. 
> After upgrading via apt-get from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, I noticed a strange
> problem, and i'm not able to understand which component of my system causes
> it. 
> Using Orca with the Espeak software syntesizer and PulseAudio as my sound
> system, Espeak does not says the last part of every message sent to it by
> orca. For example, when I reach a button using the tab key, it says the
> name of the button but don't say the word "button". Sometimes it also
> doesn't say the first part of the messages. 
> I tried to search the solution using Google, but I founded only solutions
> for people who installed Ubuntu using the installation cd and had other
> problem, such as espeak speaking too fast.
> 
> Could anybody help me? Last but not list, is this the right place to ask
> this question?
> 
> Thank you so much and have a nice day.
> 
> Fabrizio. 
> --- Fine messaggio ---
> --- Fine messaggio ---
> 
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