The problem does seem to be related to portaudio. I have rebuilt espeak against portaudio v18 (it currently uses v19), and got espeak to speak without too many hiccups. I have tested it with orca, while navigating apps and webpages and listening for longer periods, without any crashes. Every so often there appears to be a very short stutter at the beginning of a sentence, when espeak hasn't spoken for a while.
Please try my rebuilt packages at my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~miki4242/+archive/ppa Any feedback is very welcome. -- espeak sound doesn't play correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354522 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs