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request_espeak_stop() waited forever for the espeak thread to acknowledge the stop. If espeak-ng is wedged inside the audio output (e.g. an ALSA device blocked or stuck returning EBUSY, as reported in issue #62), the acknowledgement never comes, and the softsynth thread stops draining /dev/softsynth forever. Speakup's kernel buffer then fills up and console output stalls, which matches the "blocks dmesg output after a couple of pages" observation in issue #45. The process goes silent and only SIGKILL gets rid of it. Wait at most 10 seconds for the acknowledgement (a normal cancellation takes milliseconds; the timeout can only trigger when espeak is truly stuck). On timeout, exit with a clear message so that the init system respawns espeakup in a clean state: our systemd unit already has Restart=always. A one-second restart beats an unkillable silent daemon, and was explicitly requested by the reporter of issue #62. Helps: https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/issues/45 Helps: https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/issues/62 Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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espeakup connector
espeakup is a program which makes it possible for speakup to use the espeak-ng software synthesizer. It does this by reading speakup's softsynth device and passing the text to espeak-ng which actually speaks.
Requirements
This program works with the speakup screen reader, which can be obtained from http://linux-speakup.org, and the espeak-ng software speech synthesizer.
You must have both of these installed and operational. Setting them up is beyond the scope of this document.
Installation
The preferred way to install espeakup is using your distribution's packaging system, but if your distribution does not have a package for espeakup yet, espeakup just uses meson, so you should be able to change to the source directory, then type:
meson setup . ./build
cd ./build
ninja
sudo ninja install
Starting Up
This program should be run after speakup is set up to communicate with a software synthesizer and after /dev/softsynth exists. The way this is done is distribution specific, so it is beyond the scope of this documentation.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Marc Mulcahy, the author of the speakup to TTSynth connector, on which this work is based. Also, I would like to thank Kirk Reiser and Jonathan Duddington, the authors of Speakup and Espeak, respectively, for their work.
Filing Bugs
Bugs should be filed on our bug tracker at https://github.com/linux-speakup/issues.