SD crashes continue in libasound2 0.18 too

[Nath]

On sam, nov 29, 2008 at 10:06:25 +0000, Hermann wrote :
> On 29.11.2008 at 08:47:45 Halim Sahin <halim.sahin at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > With a sblive and ibmtts there are no problems on my machine.
> > Maybe the problem is related to espeak output module?
> >
> I think so, since using Espea-generic doesn't end up in crashes, but
> that's obvious, since it outputs via aplay.
> Unfortunately I'm not able to test other speech engines, cause they
> don't have German as selectable language, so I'm tied to Espeak.
> I use a SBPCI 128 sound card, the same manufacturer as SBlive.
> Hermann
> 
Hello,

Here I'm on Ubuntu hardy so with libasound2 1.0.17 and I have also
frequently crashes, in fact crashes happened every 1 or 2 minutes. I use
espeak module. I tried with espeak-generic module but with this module
the speech driver included in brltty doesn't read every lines when I use
the up and down arrows to read text.

I don't know exactly where is the problem : in speech-dispatcher, in
espeak module, in espeak, in brltty-s speech driver ?

One thing I noticed : When crashes happens there is often an uppercase
caracter in the last words which are spoken just before the crash. What
do you think about that ? Perhaps espeak problem ?
Do you notice the same ?

I must upgrade to intrepid at work but since this crash still persist I
prefer not to upgrade because I must restart speech-dispatcher very very
often.

Perhaps it will be an idea to test with another version of espeak but I
don't know how to tell to speech-dispatcher not to use ubuntu espeak
package but to use espeak from tar.gz.


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Nath