trouble with Espeak and ALSA

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On Di, M?r 04, 2008 at 02:29:51 +0100, Hermann wrote:
> 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

You don't need a downgrade!
Today I played with my old Pentium III running with speechd
(espeak/ibmtts).
I have experienced the same problem.
So I changed the    buffer_size to 3000 in asound.conf and all works.
Here is my asound.conf as attachment.
Hope that helps.
BR.
Halim

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   pcm.!default {
   type plug
   slave.pcm "swmixer"
   }

   pcm.swmixer {
   type dmix
   ipc_key 1234
   slave {
   pcm "hw:0,0"
   period_time 0
   period_size 1024
   buffer_size 3000
   rate 44100
}
}