[u-a-dev] [Bug 84220] No speech in totem using eSpeak w/ Orca

[Jonathan Duddington]

In article <45CFB776.9080509 at comcast.net>,
   Joanmarie Diggs <j-diggs at comcast.net> wrote:

> As I just indicated on the bug, PortAudio V19 makes this issue go
>    away. Thanks much!!!

Ubuntu could perhaps build eSpeak to use PortAudio V19, and also
include the PortAudio V19 library in main?

It should be possible for both V18 and V19 of PortAudio to be present,
since V19 names its library as libportaudio.so.2 rather than
libportaudio.so.0.

However there is a problem with PortAudio V19.

I noticed when I tried using eSpeak with PortAudio V19 from the command
line, eg:
  espeak "hello" 

that there was a loud click and a short pause before speaking, every
time I did the command.  That would be a problem, especially if eSpeak
was called as a command line program for every utterance, which I think
was how it was used before Gilles made the Gnome Speech driver.  I
don't know whether this effect depends on particular sound hardware. 
This problem still occurs in the latest PortAudio V19 snapshot which I
downloaded today.