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Since April last year the text-to-speech using eSpeak in the Raspberry Pi
console has stuttered very badly and regularly crashes the kernel.
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<p>
Here's how I fixed it.
</p>
<p>
Cloning my github repo:
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<pre>
git clone <a href="https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git">https://github.com/cromarty/ttsprojects.git</a>
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Installation:
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<pre>
cd ttsprojects/raspberry-pi/libilctts/build
sudo ./build.sh
cd ../../piespeakup
sudo ./build.sh
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<p>
Bingo!  Speech should work.
</p>
<p>
This has only just been released and there is still work to do on the
documentation.
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<p>
Note: I am not connected to the Raspberry Pi Foundation in any way
and anything I say or do is not endorsed by them.
</p>
<p>
My email address is connected with a Freelists email list I set up and
an accompanying web site:
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<p>
<a href="https://www.raspberryvi.org/">https://www.raspberryvi.org/</a>
</p>
<p>
The 'VI' is for 'Visually Impaired' and I DID check with the
Foundation about the similarity of the web address before I created it.
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To join our email list send an email to:
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<a href="mailto:raspberry-vi-request@freelists.org">raspberry-vi-request@freelists.org</a>
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With 'subscribe' in the subject.
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<p>
Mike
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