Hi Tom,
On May 28, 2024, at 08:40, Tom Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have noticed Speakup being unstable on Arm64 as well. > This seems to be limited to this arch from what I can tell. > Amd64 works fine. > One thing I notice is that the first 10th of a second or so the speech > cuts off. > For example when reading by character half of the character is not > spoken by speakup. > > My exact setup is a Vmware fusion guest on an m2 pro based mac. I noticed this behavior also, specifically with VMware. I do not believe this is a bug with espeakup, as the performance with qemu arm64 is fantastic, a part from this long standing issue of speech stopping. --FC > > Tom > > On 2024-05-26, Sam Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi. >> I was installing on a 11th gen Lenovo Carbon X1 last night, and against >> my typical practice I decided to try D-I. >> I ran into something that looks a lot like the espeakup hangs that >> people have been struggling with on arm64. >> >> I was using the 12.5 netinst iso for amd64. >> The installer would speak for a while and then suddenly stop. >> >> If I dropped to a shell on ctrl-alt-f2 and then killed `pidof espeakup` >> and restarted espeakup, things would continue. >> Interestingly after I restarted espeakup it tended to get more stable. >> >> I was more interested in installing my system (after which I do not >> typically use espeakup much) than in debugging. >> However it is easy enough for me to reproduce. >> Unfortunately, d-i isn't the greatest environment for debugging >> something like this. >> >> I thought it was interesting because if the problem is broader than >> arm64, it might be easier to approach. >> >> --Sam >> >> >
