trouble with Espeak and ALSA

[Hermann]

am Di 04. M?r 2008 um 14:20:14 schrieb Mike Gorse <mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org>:
> I am using Speech Dispatcher 0.6.6 with espeak 1.31 and alsa under 
> OpenSUSE.  Whenever a sample is played, the first few frames of speech are 
> cut off, so I lose the first syllable or two of each utterance.  This does 
> not happen if I run espeak directly.  Has anyone else run into this?
 
Did you upgrade Alsa utils in the last days? If so, try to downgrade 
including the libasound files. There must have been something broken in the 
packages.
Hermann