espeak outputs incomprehensible audio, perhaps just too fast.

[Shahar Or]

Binary package hint: espeak

Dear friends,

Please look:

dawn@dawn-desktop:~$ espeak one two
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
dawn@dawn-desktop:~$

And the audio is in no way understood. It sounds like it is being played extremely fast.

On the other hand, if I output the audio to a file using the -w option the audio in the file is good.

Blessings.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: espeak 1.40.02-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: espeak
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

Does it fail only randomly ?
If it does it might be a duplicate of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/espeak/+bug/379041

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear João,

I guess it is. Thank you.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Nope, this isn't a duplicate of bug #379041. It does display that error when the Bluetooth dongle isn't attached, but when it is attached, or when I've removed bluez-alsa, the problem persists.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Upstream eSpeak developer says that this is a knows problem in Ubuntu, which has to do with PulseAudio. Can anyone relate this to an existing bug report, please?

[SwaJime (john-swajime)]

I'm having the same issue.

espeak is also dropping the last syllable of the last word, most of the time.

$ espeak 'would you like some pizza?'
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

The result is "would you like some peet?" (without the "za" at the end).

$ espeak 'do you play piano?'
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)
bt_audio_service_open: connect() failed: Connection refused (111)

gives 'do you play pian?'

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Hey Swajime,

Are you sure that this is the same kind of issue?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Natty Narwhal. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

I did attempt to reproduce this issue in Natty Narwhal, and was not able to.

Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Shahar Or (mightyiam)]

Dear Charlie,

It seems that I am too, am unable to reproduce this.

Blessings,
Shahar

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for verifying this. Since this can not be reproduced, I am closing this report. The annoying messages have been addressed in another bug report, and upstream has closed the report there. It is possible that an update has fixed this issue.

Please continue to report bugs you find. You efforts to improve Ubuntu are greatly appreciated.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=2931356 was closed by upstream as in issue in Ubuntu, not in the application.