eSpeak - PPC architecture

[Al Puzzuoli]

Hi Jonathan,

  I tried the experiments you suggested.

1.> What text output do you get if you use the -x option, eg:
>  espeak -x "hello"?

Interestingly, I'm not getting any text at all.  When I do this, I'm 
immediately dropped back to the shell with no output.


2.  What happens if you send the speech output to a WAV file?

Again, nothing useful.  I think eSpeak is actually creating an invalid wav 
file.  When I attempt to play the file using aplay, I get:

Playing WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 576061440 Hz, 
Mono
aplay: set_params:965: Unable to install hw params:
ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT:  S16_LE
SUBFORMAT:  STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 16
CHANNELS: 1
RATE: NONE
PERIOD_TIME: (21333 21334)
PERIOD_SIZE: (12289118 12289119)
PERIOD_BYTES: (24578236 24578238)
PERIODS: (16 17)
BUFFER_TIME: (341333 341334)
BUFFER_SIZE: 196628971
BUFFER_BYTES: 393257942
TICK_TIME: 0


I'm not sure where to go with this nextin terms of further troubleshooting. 
If it would help at all, I could grant you ssh access to the box.

Please let me know if that would be of use, or if there is anything else 
you'd like me to try.

--Al