Espeak-generic doesn't work anymore

[Hermann]

On 18.10.2009 at 13:44:14 Hermann <meinelisten at onlinehome.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> this morning I tried to use SD with Espeak-generic, because Espeak
> still crashes with Brltty while reading, the old libasound problem.
> I had to realize that Espeak-generic is quiet, although there are no
> error messages in the log files.
> Finally I figured out, that /tmp/espeak.wav is no longer created, so
> that nothing is sent to Aplay.
> Creating such a file mannually by using the Espeak standalone and
> playing it with Aplay, is no problem, so that a writing rights problem
> shouldn't exist.
> I send the Espeak-generic command from
> /etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak-generic.conf:
>
> GenericExecuteSynth \
> "echo \"$DATA\" | espeak -w $TMPDIR/espeak.wav -v $VOICE -s $RATE -a $VOLUME 
> -p $PITCH $PUNCT --stdin && aplay $TMPDIR/espeak.wav"
>
> Anything wrong with it? It used to work.

Now I've created a workaround: I set the absolute path of espeak.wav,
which made it speak.
So I guess my OS does no longer set and find a system wide temp dir. It
used to do so, what went wrong?
I use GRML with the latest upgrades via safe-upgrade.
Hermann