Comment 8 for bug 948884

this problem with ending wovels is very annoying

echo te le se ty ly sy py gy ta la sa | espeak -v mb-fr1 # only sy sounds good (like english 'e' ) py and gy sounds like english 'i' instead, and other ending french e and a vowels sound is missing

With espeak_1.45.04 only py and gy sounds bad ('i' instead of 'e')

So in the meanwhile i use version 1.45.04, and i block package update with dpkg --set-selection

64bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/espeak_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/espeak-data_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/libespeak1_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

32bits
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/espeak_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/espeak-data_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/e/espeak/libespeak1_1.45.04-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

block update: (unblock with 'install' instead of 'hold')
echo espeak hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo espeak-data hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
echo libespeak1 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections