Arch Espeakup Update--Still no joy!

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hi, All:

I thought I should forward my response to Kirk Reiser below to the
blinux list, as we've discussed this here previously.

I've no idea whether or not Kirk's problem with Debian is the same. I
can only confirm that Espeakup-0.90 and alsa-lib-1.2.5 are still
nonfunctional for me with Arch.

Here's my email to Kirk on the Speakup list ...


Hi, Kirk:

I'm on Arch, not Debian, but I've had broken Espeakup ever since
alsa-lib-1.2.5 showed up. Since then Espeakup has been upversioned to
0.90, but this has not fixed things for me, though apparently it has for
Alexander now maintaning Espeakup.

I currently have two functional Linux machines, both fully upgraded as
of just about half an hour ago except as described below.

The newer hardware will run by hand with the command: 'espeakup -d', but
it's highly brittle and prone to crash the system so that a three finger
salute is needed.

If I want console access on this 2020 era box, I have to turn to fenrir,
which I'm just not as comfortable with--but that's another story.

My older machine is prevented by my /etc/pacman.conf from updating
alsa-lib and espeakup, and it runs just fine. 

So, my suggestion is back off to the latest alsa-lib-1.2.4, and the
latest espeakup-0.8 you have, and you should be fine until someone
figures out what's really going on.

For anyone running Arch you want the following in your /etc/pacman.conf:

IgnorePkg   =espeakup
IgnorePkg   =alsa-lib

If you've already updated your Arch beyond these versions, you can
downgrade. You'll find a cache of previous versions in:

/var/cache/pacman/pkg/
Just cd on over there as root and check what you have with a command
like:

ls -1 alsa-lib* espeakup*

You can then downversion with pacman like this:

pacman -U ./[filename]

where [filename] is the full name you got from ls. I recommend using the
Speakup clipboard to get the command right.

Best,

Janina


Kirk Reiser writes:
> Hi folks: Does anyone have espeakup running on debian sid with
> libasound2 1.2.5? After I upgraded a few days ago I lost my speech
> output. I have built espeakup and espeak-ng from the current repo on
> them with no joy either.
> 
> Curious minds and all that type thing.
> 
>   Kirk
> 

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Janina Sajka
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa